brave new world notes 1-4 Flashcards

1
Q

motto

A

community, identity, stability

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2
Q

what year does it start

A

AF 632

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3
Q

what does AF mean

A

after ford

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4
Q

why do they worship henry ford

A

for the creation of the assembly line

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5
Q

cut all crosses into

A

T’s

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6
Q

list castes in order

A

A,B,G,D,E

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7
Q

standard men and women are born into the lower classes by the

A

bokanovsky process

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8
Q

what happens in the social predestination room

A

stuff goes in to the tube to condition it for its specific future. they might tilt it, climate it.

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9
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what is the purpose of the social predestination room

A

so no one will complain in the future

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10
Q

what is the decanting room

A

people are born, hatched out of test tubes

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11
Q

what are woman who are sterile called

A

freemartins

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12
Q

there is no mothers, what is used by all women

A

contraception

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13
Q

why would an embryo be below par

A

alcohol, oxygen deprivation

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14
Q

what does the director say the secret of happiness is

A

social conditioning and stability

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15
Q

short name for the director

A

D.H.C.

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16
Q

how many world controllers are there

A

10

17
Q

name a world controller

A

Mustapha Mond

18
Q

Mustapha mond is the controller of

A

resident world controller of western europe

19
Q

why do they condition babies to hate books

A

book leads to knowledge and knowledge leads to discontent

20
Q

“A love of _____ keeps no factory busy”

A

nature

21
Q

being able to produce young means

A

viviparous

22
Q

repetitive sleep teaching

A

hypnopaedia

23
Q

what is a quote by the beta’s

A

“I’m glad I’m a beta, I don’t have to work so hard”

24
Q

everyone belongs to ….

A

everyone else

25
Q

what is in Mond’s safe

A

books and bibles

26
Q

smutty words

A

mother and father

27
Q

what does fanny talk about to lenina

A

about being conventional

28
Q

what is “It’s death if it stands still”

A

the machine turning

29
Q

what is the machine

A

the consumer system

30
Q

holiday from reality

A

soma

31
Q

there is no leisure from

A

pleasure

32
Q

what lurkes in the interval of time between desire and consumation

A

feeling

33
Q

no tension because people are so

A

busy

34
Q

bernard’s foil

A

helmholtz watson

35
Q

helmholtz and bernard are ____ equal but ____ unequal

A

intellectually

physically