brave new world notes 1-4 Flashcards

1
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motto

A

community, identity, stability

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2
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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
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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
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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
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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
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there is no mothers, what is used by all women

A

contraception

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13
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why would an embryo be below par

A

alcohol, oxygen deprivation

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14
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what does the director say the secret of happiness is

A

social conditioning and stability

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15
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short name for the director

A

D.H.C.

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16
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how many world controllers are there

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”

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

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what is in Mond's safe
books and bibles
26
smutty words
mother and father
27
what does fanny talk about to lenina
about being conventional
28
what is "It's death if it stands still"
the machine turning
29
what is the machine
the consumer system
30
holiday from reality
soma
31
there is no leisure from
pleasure
32
what lurkes in the interval of time between desire and consumation
feeling
33
no tension because people are so
busy
34
bernard's foil
helmholtz watson
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helmholtz and bernard are ____ equal but ____ unequal
intellectually | physically