Brave New World Flashcards by Claire Wolfe

Setting of BNW

London

632 AF

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Motto of the world state?

Community identity stability

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Bokanovsky process

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

Alpha beta gamma delta epsilon

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Describe hypnopaedia

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?

Marriage keeps society from being stable.

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Castes and colors

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?

Past and future are unimportant; live in the day.

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Purpose of the whipping ceremony at the Reservation

Fertility rite. Atonement for sins.

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Why is Shakespeare prohibited in the World State?

Subversive

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

High art
Science
Religion

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Where is Bernard exiled to?

Iceland

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Where is helmholtz exiled to?

The Faulkner islands

Off the coast of Argentina.

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Where is john exiled to?

old lighthouse on the crest of a hill.

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Predestine

Verb

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

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Vivaparious

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

Adjective

Resembling a spasm especially in sudden violence.

Subject to outbursts of emotional excitement.

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Apertures

Noun

An opening or open space

The opening in a photographic lens that admits the light.

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Maudlin

Adjective

Drunk enough to be emotionally silly

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Erotic

Adjective

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

Strongly marked or affected by sexual desire.

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Effusive

Adjective

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

Pouring freely

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Tactual

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

Adjective

Not restricted to one class, sort of person

Not restricted to one sexual partner.

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Incessant

Adjective

Going on and on without any interruptions.

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Monogamy

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

Innocuous

Adjective Producing no injury Not likely to give offense or to attitude strong feelings or hostility

Profound

Adjective Having intellectual depth and insight Difficult to fathom or understand.

Voluptuous

Adjective Suggesting sensual pleasure by fullness and body of form Full of delight or pleasure to the senses.

Hierarchy

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

Persevere

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

Premonition

Noun Previous notice or warning Anticipation of an event without conscious reason.

Incoherent

Adjective Lacking cohesion, orderly continuity, arrangement or relevance. Lacking normal clarity or intelligibility in speech or thought.

Senility

Noun The physical and mental decline associated with old age.

Deprecating

Verb To pray against To express disapproval of Make little of

Impunity

Noun Exemption or freedom from punishment, harm or loss.

Subversive

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.

Self indulgence

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

Strumpet

Noun Prostitute

Atonement

Noun Reparation for an offense or injury.

Shakespeare mentions in BNW

Othello Hamlet Romeo and Juliet The Tempest

Example of alienation

Bernard Marx John Hemlholtz

Example of sexual promiscuity/Sexual Aversion

Lenina John with Lenina Alduous

Example of propaganda/brainwashing.

Conditioning center

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

Linda with soma | Soma in general

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

Right before Hitler | Bureaucracy

Example of the Consumer Society.

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

Example of the incompatibility of happiness and truth.

Lenina on the reservations wrong old men.

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

``` Colors that the castes wear The group is more important than the individual. Euthanasia (assisted suicide) Everybody dies the same way. Cloning. ```

Example of technological process run wild- the use of technology to control society

``` Conditioning center Hypnopaedia Soma Looking young ALWAYS Hatchery Bokanovsky process In vitro fertilization ```

What is the purpose of the Hatchery and Conditioning Center?

"Artificial reproduction"

What two objects are delta babies taught to dislike?

Books and roses/flowers.

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

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

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

Marriage keeps society from being stable.

What is the requirement of inventing new games? Why?

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

How do these quotes express the economic views of the world state? "The more stitches, the less riches" "Ending is better than mending"

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

Why is Bernard Marx different?

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

Describes the castes.

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

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

New Mexico reservation. Malpais. Blue pacific rocket.

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

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

How can Linda not adjust to the reservation?

Horrible, dirty, no soma, motherhood, religion.

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

Polyamorous Drinks alcohol Copes with "soma"

What sources has john received his education?

Mother and Pope | Lab manual Shakespeare.

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

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

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

He wants marriage she wants sex. | He respects her but she doesn't respect herself.

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

Howled with laughter. Out of the ordinary.

What happens after the scene in the Fertilizing Room?

Resigned immediately.

What was the price mustapha mond paid?

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

What does mond call Christianity without tears?

Soma

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

Claims the right to free will.

Author of Brave New World.

Aldous Huxley

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

Helmholtz Watson

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

Bernard Marx.

His fordship, the resident controller for Western Europe.

Mustapha mond.

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

Linda

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

Lenina

Nickname given to director of hatcheries and conditioning.

Tomakin.

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

John the savage.

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

Arch community songster of Canterbury.

When was alduoud Huxley born?

1894 England.

Where did he attend school?

Eton and Oxford.

Where was his first job?

Taught at eton.

When was BNW published in

1952.

What's is mysticism?

Making yourself on the same level as God.

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