1. Notes for Study Test Tomorrow!
Brave New World
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2. Character Profiles D.H.C. director of the hatchery
gives the students a tour of the facility

3. Character Profiles Mustapha Mond resident controller of Western Europe
one of the ten world controllers
also lectures the students on the past and present state of earth
tells the Savage that the civilized world has decided to take happiness in exchange for freedom, art and religion.

4. Character Profiles Bernard Marx
Alpha plus successful psychologist who has an inferiority complex due to his small height
feels isolated from rest of society
doesn’t believe in the promiscuous nature of society
exhibits characteristic of man before Ford

5. Character Profiles Lenina Crowne
Woman who tries to persuade Bernard to take her to the reservation
always seems to be unzipping her clothes

6. Character Profiles Fanny Crowne works in bottling room
friend of Lenina who pressures her to be more traditionally promiscuous.

7. Character Profiles Benito Hoover notoriously good-natured
always kind to others
always offering sex-hormone chewing gum

8. Character Profiles Helmholtz Watson emotional engineer
friend of Bernard
also an outcast but it is due to his great physical beauty, muscular strength and mental excess
later Bernard is jealous of him when he and the Savage become friends
eventually sent to the Falkland Islands when he exhibits too much independence

9. Character Profiles Director
man who threatens Bernard with Iceland but then has to eat his words when Bernard returns with Linda and the Savage

10. Character Profiles Linda
conditioned woman raised in civilization but left by accident in the Reservation by the Director years before
has son, John, who grows up as a half-breed

11. Character Profiles John, the Savage son of Linda
returns to civilization to …
demands freedom and isolation in exchange for happiness

12. Character Profiles Mitsima
Indian tribal elder who acts as a father to John and teaches him the Indian way

13. Caste System
People in Brave New World are genetically divided into 5 Greek letter categories.

14. Alphas Wear Grey The intellectuals of society
Some examples of professions can be World Controllers (Alpha double plus), Directors of Hatcheries and Wardens. Bernard, a psychologist, is also an Alpha.

15. Betas Wear Mulberry These persons are somewhat intelligent
Often work as mechanics

16. Gammas
Wear green
Often work as machine manipulators, butlers, and other semi-thought-provoking jobs

17. Deltas
Wear Khaki
Jobs include: helicopter attendants, cold pressers, screw cutters, package packers
Are mass produced and have no individuality

18. Epsilons Wear black Can’t read or write
Jobs: sewage workers, liftmen, foundry workers, carriers
Semi-morons

19. Quotes (Who said/Discuss)
“Bokanovsky’s Process is on of the major instruments of social stability!”

20. Answer The Director (ch. 1)
This quote underscores the entire idea behind the modern civilization- the lack of individuality.
How does this process of genetic engineering make the population easier to manage?

21. Quote
“And that...is the secret of happiness and virtue- liking what you’ve got to do. All conditioning aims at that: making people like their inescapable social destiny.”

22. Answer
Director (ch. 2)
After genetic engineering, social conditioning is the most important way for the government to enslave its people. The different caste members are conditioned to never yearn for a life other than their own.
What examples of this “conditioning” can you remember?

23. Quote
“Wheels must turn steadily, but cannot turn untended. There must be men to tend them, men as steady as the wheels upon their axels, sane men, obedient men, stable in contentment.”

24. Answer Mustapha Mond (ch. 3)
This is the justification for totalitarian government. It knows best, not individuals.
In what ways other ways does this government control the population?

25. Quote
“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.”

26. Answer
John (ch. 17)
Here John explains the old world reasoning. He asserts that true life requires exposure to all things, good and evil.
Do you think this explains John’s actions at the conclusion of the novel? Why or why not?

27. The End
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