essay quotes & techniques

Question 1

“everyone belongs to everyone else” - social conditioning records

Answer 1

motif of confinement, parallelism, irony

Question 2

“if one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely” - John the Savage

Answer 2

antithesis, contrast

Question 3

“i want to know what passion is… I want to feel something strongly” - Bernard Marx

Answer 3

emotive language, personal voice, contrast

Question 4

“a gramme is better than a damn” - hypnopaedic sayings

Answer 4

dogmal, idiom, aphorism

Question 5

“but i don’t want comfort. i want God, i want poetry, i want real danger, i want freedom, i want goodness. i want sin” - John the Savage

Answer 5

enumeration, juxtaposition, symbolism, contrast

Question 6

“one believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them” - Mustapha Mond

Answer 6

causality

Question 7

“but that’s the price we have to pay for stability. you’ve got to choose between happiness and what people used to call high art” - Mustapha Mond

Answer 7

allusion, contrast, irony

Question 8

“but in the intervals i still like him” - Lenina

Answer 8

contrast, foreshadowing

Question 9

“straight from the horse’s mouth” - The Director

Answer 9

animal imagery, motif, irony

Question 10

“[…] stability isn’t nearly as spectacular as instability” - John the Savage

Answer 10

antithesis, rhetorical emphasis