Brave New World study guide contains a biography of Aldous Huxley, literature essays, quiz questions, major themes, characters, and a full summary and analysis.
- Short Summary
- Character List
- Glossary of Terms
- Summary and Analysis of Chapters 1-3
- Summary and Analysis of Chapters 4-6
- Summary and Analysis of Chapters 7-9
- Summary and Analysis of Chapters 10-12
- Summary and Analysis of Chapters 13-15
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some questions that i need answers to
Death in the World State means sudden senility but no A)freedom B)pain C)peace D)cremationBefore the feelies began, entertainment was provided by A)Orgy-Porgy B)Centrifugal Bumblepuppy C)The Scent Organ D)a Solidarity Service
The Savage (John) felt that the feelies were A)miraculous B)sensational C)subversive D)ignoble
John believes that people in the World State have made some sacrifices for their kind of happiness. Among these are science and A)technology B)art C)health D)security
The purpose of death conditioning is to create an attitude of A)concern B)sorrow C)joy D)unconcern when people die
When John sees the countless identical workers in the Electrical Equipment Company, he A)retches B)rejoices C)marvels D)faints
Bernard is deported because of his desire for A)Lenina B)soma C)the Contgroller's job D)individuality
Having only one partner in marriage is known as A)monopoly B)unisex C)monogamy D)polygamy
The words "O brave new world" were taken from Shakespeare's play A)Romeo & Juiliet B)Hamlet C)Othello D)the Tempest
In their pff-working hours, the people of the World State were suppose to act like civilized A)robots B)freemartins C)infants D)morons
The Malpais reservation where John and Linda lived was located in A)Arizona B)New Mexico C)Mexico D)Texas
The word "mother" was considered in the World State to be A)obscene B)natural C)smutty D)sacred
The Solidarity Service, a meeting for members of the upper castles, ended in A)a riot B)an Electromagnetic Golf Tournament C)a Community Sing D)an orgy
Most of the women of the World State were sterile and were known as A)freemartins B)free spirits C)free agents D)free lovers
John caused a riot when he tried to do away with A)hypnopaedia B)the feelies C)decanting D)soma
Does anyone have a general list of characteristics that distinguish Alphas and Betas in Brave New World?
BNW and The Underground History of American Education
I recently came across a book written by an American teacher, former New York City and State Teacher of the Year. The Underground History of American Education is a polemic about compulsory schooling (as opposed to compulsory education), and its claim that schooling is a vast social engineering scheme to keep people in their place, strikes me as uncannily similar to Brave New World. For example,"In a speech he gave before businessmen prior to the First World War, Woodrow Wilson made this unabashed disclosure:
We want one class to have a liberal education. We want another class, a very much larger class of necessity, to forgo the privilege of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks."
Some form of BNW, in other words, may have already been in place well before the novel was written.
The book is available on-line at http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/chapters/
Alastair
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One must live the way one thinks, or end up thinking the way one has lived.
Paul Bourget (1852 - 1935)
Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.
Martin Luther King Jr.
