Brave New World Vocabulary

Vocabulary flashcards for Brave New World lecture notes.

Community, Identity, Stability

The motto of the World State emphasizing societal values.

Bottling Room

The process of surgically removing and artificially fertilizing ovaries in glass containers.

Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, Epsilons

The class divisions in the Brave New World society.

Bokanovsky Process

The process of making fertilized eggs proliferate into up to ninety-six identical embryos, used for lower classes.

Podsnap's Technique

Technique that produces thousands of identical twins from one ovary, allowing for mass production of identical beings.

Social Predestination Room

Determining the future and conditioning individuals for specific functions in society.

Conditioning

Conditioning aims at making people like the work they are destined to do throughout their lives

Deconditioning Room

Babies are released from their bottles.

Neo-Pavlovian Conditioning

Conditioning identical Deltas to hate books and nature using alarms and electric shocks.

Hypnopaedia

Moral education applied through sleep-teaching, reinforcing class consciousness.

Elementary Class Consciousness

Permanently repeating that lower castes are less intelligent than upper castes.

Mustapha Mond

Controller who explains the principles of the World State.

Soma

A pleasantly hallucinatory drug without dangerous side effects, provided for free.

Lenina Crowne

Popular girl, very pneumatic is too small and ugly for an Alpha.

Helmholtz Watson

Journalist for Alpha Paper in the Propaganda House, dissatisfied with his work.

Fordson Community Singery

A community sing where participants are expected to lose their identities and fuse into a group.

Genetic engineering

The deliberate modification of the characteristics of a living organism by manipulating its genome.