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Context

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1960s America

  • overpopulation
  • sexual revolution
  • women’s movement
  • birth control controversy
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Motif of birth control pills

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“The pills were ethical because they didn’t interfere with a person’s ability to reproduce, which would have been unnatural and immoral”

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Technology - humans made redundant

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“Practically everything was the government. Practically everything was automated too”

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Neologism - nothinghead

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“A person who refused to take his ethical birth-control pills… the penalty was”

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Questions the value of sexuality

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“A woman’s not a woman till the pills wear off”

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Distortion of ethics

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“He has to ask for the needle. That was the law”

“The art of every hostess, was to see that volunteers didn’t leave”

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Notion of human decency

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“What on earth could make Suicide Hostesses turn against every concept of human decency”

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Comedic overtone

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“America has changed in many ways, but it had yet to adopt the metric system”

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Frank narration style

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“Most people looked twenty-two, thanks to the anti-aging shots they took twice a year”

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Sexuality linked to human form

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“What in hell is a girl with hip like yours doing selling death?”

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Science and religion influence on morality

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“His dream was to introduce morality into the monkey house”

“Fit things for a Christian family to see”

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Metaphoric title

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Welcome to the monkey house

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Billy’s characterisation

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“I have spent this night… attempting to restore a certain amount of innocent pleasure to the world”

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Frank narration style about sex

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“All the pills did was take every bit of pleasure out of sex”

“Society would collapse if people used sex for nothing but pleasure”

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Connotations of virgin

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“All hostesses were virgins”

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Theocratic governmental power

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“Every fifteen minutes his television would urge him to vote intelligently or consume intelligently… or obey laws - or pay a call to the nearest Ethical Suicide Parlour”