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Brave New World Flashcards

1
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Setting of BNW

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London

632 AF

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Motto of the world state?

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Community identity stability

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Bokanovsky process

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When an egg is shocked, and divides into a set of identical twins, formed embryo and a full size adult.

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5 castes of the world state

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Alpha beta gamma delta epsilon

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Describe hypnopaedia

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3 times a week; 30 months

Teaching moral and social principles through sleep teaching.

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How does the world state feel about marriage?

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Marriage keeps society from being stable.

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Castes and colors

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Alpha gray
Betas mulberry maroon
Gammas green 
Deltas khaki
Epsilon black
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What does Lenina’s phrase,”Was and will make me ill. I take a gramme and only am.” Mean?

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Past and future are unimportant; live in the day.

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Purpose of the whipping ceremony at the Reservation

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Fertility rite. Atonement for sins.

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Why is Shakespeare prohibited in the World State?

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Subversive

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What three things that the people have sacrificed for their happiness?

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High art
Science
Religion

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12
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Where is Bernard exiled to?

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Iceland

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Where is helmholtz exiled to?

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The Faulkner islands

Off the coast of Argentina.

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Where is john exiled to?

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old lighthouse on the crest of a hill.

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Predestine

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Verb

To destine, decree, determine, appoint, or settle beforehand.

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Vivaparious

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Adjective

Producing living young instead of eggs from within the body in the manner of nearly all mammals, many reptiles and a few fishes.

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Spasmodic

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Adjective

Resembling a spasm especially in sudden violence.

Subject to outbursts of emotional excitement.

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Apertures

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Noun

An opening or open space

The opening in a photographic lens that admits the light.

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Maudlin

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Adjective

Drunk enough to be emotionally silly

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Erotic

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Adjective

Of, devoted to, or tending to arouse sexual love or desire.

Strongly marked or affected by sexual desire.

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Effusive

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Adjective

Marked by the expression of great or excessive emotion or enthusiasm.

Pouring freely

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Tactual

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Adjective

Of or relating to the sense or the organs of touch

Derived from or producing the sensation of touch.

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Promiscuous

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Adjective

Not restricted to one class, sort of person

Not restricted to one sexual partner.

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Incessant

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Adjective

Going on and on without any interruptions.

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Monogamy

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Noun

The act of marrying only once during a lifetime, or one sexual partner.

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Innocuous

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Adjective

Producing no injury

Not likely to give offense or to attitude strong feelings or hostility

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Profound

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Adjective

Having intellectual depth and insight

Difficult to fathom or understand.

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Voluptuous

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Adjective

Suggesting sensual pleasure by fullness and body of form

Full of delight or pleasure to the senses.

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Hierarchy

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Noun

A ruling body of clergy organized into orders or ranks each subordinate to the one above it.

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Persevere

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Verb

To persist in a state, enterprise, or undertaking in spite of counter influences, opposition, or discouragement.

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Premonition

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Noun

Previous notice or warning

Anticipation of an event without conscious reason.

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Incoherent

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Adjective

Lacking cohesion, orderly continuity, arrangement or relevance.

Lacking normal clarity or intelligibility in speech or thought.

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Senility

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Noun

The physical and mental decline associated with old age.

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Deprecating

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Verb

To pray against
To express disapproval of
Make little of

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Impunity

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Noun

Exemption or freedom from punishment, harm or loss.

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Subversive

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Noun

A systematic attempt to overthrow or undermine a government or political system by persons working secretly from within.

A cause of overthrow or destruction.

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Self indulgence

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Noun

Excessive or unrestrained gratification of one’s own appetites, desires or whims.

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Strumpet

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Noun

Prostitute

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Atonement

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Noun

Reparation for an offense or injury.

40
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Shakespeare mentions in BNW

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Othello
Hamlet
Romeo and Juliet
The Tempest

41
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Example of alienation

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Bernard Marx
John
Hemlholtz

42
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Example of sexual promiscuity/Sexual Aversion

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Lenina
John with Lenina
Alduous

43
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Example of propaganda/brainwashing.

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Conditioning center

44
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Example of use of chemicals(some, etc.) to escape or to control people’s lives.

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Linda with soma

Soma in general

45
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Example of totalitarianism and the danger of the all powerful state.

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Right before Hitler

Bureaucracy

46
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Example of the Consumer Society.

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To consumer is more
Important to produce.
Complicated games that require lots of equipment.

47
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Example of the incompatibility of happiness and truth.

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Lenina on the reservations wrong old men.

48
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Example of the homogenization of the Human Species by the state.

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Colors that the castes wear
The group is more important than the individual. 
Euthanasia (assisted suicide)
Everybody dies the same way. 
Cloning.
49
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Example of technological process run wild- the use of technology to control society

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Conditioning center 
Hypnopaedia
Soma
Looking young ALWAYS
Hatchery 
Bokanovsky process
In vitro fertilization
50
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What is the purpose of the Hatchery and Conditioning Center?

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“Artificial reproduction”

51
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What two objects are delta babies taught to dislike?

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Books and roses/flowers.

52
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Why does the state condition the masses to dislike the country?

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Consumerism. If they’re in the country, they’re not buying anything.

53
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Explain the state’s attitude toward sex. How does the state regard marriage?

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Marriage keeps society from being stable.

54
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What is the requirement of inventing new games? Why?

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Games must be just confusing, more confusing so that people have to buy equipment.

55
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How do these quotes express the economic views of the world state?

“The more stitches, the less riches”
“Ending is better than mending”

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They would rather throw something away and restart completely than to try and fix it.

56
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Why is Bernard Marx different?

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No girlfriends. 
Doesn't take soma
Hates sports
Likes solitude. 
Different because he had alcohol in his decanting. 
He's a short male.
57
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Describes the castes.

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Can only go to monorail.
Upper castes can travel lower ones can’t.
All play games.

58
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Where do Bernard and Lenina plan to visit on vacation. Travel?

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New Mexico reservation.
Malpais.
Blue pacific rocket.

59
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What happened when the director visited the reservation 20 years ago. Who did he tell?

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Bernard. When to mountain went girl. Girl got lost. No one could find her.

60
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How can Linda not adjust to the reservation?

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Horrible, dirty, no soma, motherhood, religion.

61
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Why does Linda suffer rejection on the reservation? What does she do to cope?

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Polyamorous
Drinks alcohol
Copes with “soma”

62
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What sources has john received his education?

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Mother and Pope

Lab manual Shakespeare.

63
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Why does Bernard want to take john and Linda back to London?

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Knows related to director
Wants to humiliate him
Doesn’t like him
Hoping to rescue himself.

64
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What are John’s feelings about Lenina? Why will their relationship not survive.

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He wants marriage she wants sex.

He respects her but she doesn’t respect herself.

65
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How do the workers react to John’s calling the DHC my father? Why?

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Howled with laughter. Out of the ordinary.

66
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What happens after the scene in the Fertilizing Room?

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Resigned immediately.

67
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What was the price mustapha mond paid?

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Gave up his happiness for the happiness of the world state.

68
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What does mond call Christianity without tears?

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Soma

69
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John tells mond that he has “the right to be unhappy”. What does john really mean by this?

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Claims the right to free will.

70
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Author of Brave New World.

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Aldous Huxley

71
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Teacher and proganda writer in London who is not happy with his job.

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Helmholtz Watson

72
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Character who is a misfit alpha male and who travels to a reservation in New Mexico. Rejected. Hates world state.

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Bernard Marx.

73
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His fordship, the resident controller for Western Europe.

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Mustapha mond.

74
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Accidentally left behind on the reservation 20 years before the novel begins.

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Linda

75
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Dates both Bernard Marx and Henry foster among others. Beta female.

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Lenina

76
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Nickname given to director of hatcheries and conditioning.

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Tomakin.

77
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He was born on the reservation but never fit in with others in the society there. Rejected, hates reservation.

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John the savage.

78
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One of the supreme officials in the religion of the world state

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Arch community songster of Canterbury.

79
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When was alduoud Huxley born?

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1894 England.

80
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Where did he attend school?

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Eton and Oxford.

81
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Where was his first job?

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Taught at eton.

82
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When was BNW published in

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1952.

83
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What’s is mysticism?

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Making yourself on the same level as God.

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