Quotes
How Does this Passage Apply to The World State:
"Christianity without tears—that’s what soma is" (PDF 179).
How Does The World State use use Soma to create a unified state by conditioning members to accept the creating fake happiness and pleasure through Soma.
Create a Theme for the Given Information:
The World State uses Technology to Control its members
The World State Uses Soma to create addicts who subjugate themselves to fake happiness.
Possible Answer:
Objects that attribute to one's happiness are good in moderation but, if overused, will lead to one's downfall.
Black, Khaki, Leaf Green, Mulberry, Grey. Represents people's place in society.
What is the Caste System?
The Savage. An outsider to both the World State and the Reservation. Loves Shakespeare and takes his values from the Author's tales. Commits suicide due after overcoming with guilt and sin for participating in an Orgy.
Who is John?
Name this Setting:
The setting of the entire novel. Bernard's, Helmholtz's, and Lenina's home. A unified Nation.
What is The World State?
How Does this Passage Apply to The World State:
"Every one works for every one else. We can’t do without any one. Even Epsilons are useful. We couldn’t do without Epsilons. Every one works for every one else. We can’t do without any one" (PDF 61).
How does The World State create a place for everyone in their respective castes cannot function without stability within castes?
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How does The World State create equality after death through using the burnt corpses of the population to create phosphorus?
Create a Theme with the Given Information:
“'I’d rather be myself,” he said. 'Myself and nasty. Not somebody else, however jolly'" (PDF 73).
Possible Answer:
Individuality may only thrive if one is able to experience both tragedy and blessing.
Represents Fake Happiness. The perfect drug used to control the World State's population. Abused by many characters, including Lenina, Bernard, and Linda, throughout the novel.
What is Soma?
Alpha Plus. An outcast of the World State due to his unique critical views. loves but is used by Lenina. Rises in popularity by using John until John refuses. Is exiled to the Falkland Islands.
Who is Bernard Marx?
Name the Character Related to this Location:
A lighthouse overlooking the sea with lush trees and greenery all around
Who is John?
Explain how this Passage Applies to the World State:
"Mother, monogamy, romance. High spurts the fountain; fierce and foamy the wild jet. The urge has but a single outlet. My love, my baby. No wonder those poor pre-moderns were mad and wicked and miserable. Their world didn’t allow them to take things easily, didn’t allow them to be sane, virtuous, happy. What with mothers and lovers, what with the prohibitions they were not conditioned to obey, what with the temptations and the lonely remorses, what with all the diseases and the endless isolating pain, what with the uncertainties and the poverty—they were forced to feel strongly. And feeling strongly (and strongly, what was more, in solitude, in hopelessly individual isolation), how could they be stable?" (PDF 36)
How is The World State is a uniform society which has no need for strong emotions as emotions take away from stability?
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How is The World State a dystopia where any suffering and pain is useless as happiness is the only useful emotion as it fuels the economy.
Propose a Theme Based on the Given Quote:
“Call it the fault of civilization. God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness” (PDF 177).
Possible Answer:
Advancements in technology and civilization are able to help and save humanity if it is not abused to the point of our own destruction.
Represents the World State's God or Savior. Created the Model T and mass produced it with the Assembly Line.
Who is Henry Ford
Beta Plus. Enjoys the World State and its pleasures. Dates Henry Foster but has multiple partners, including Bernard. Loves John, but cannot have him due to John's values.
Who is Lenina Crowe?
Name this Setting:
A Factory filled with bottles of human fetuses being grown through the Bokanovsky Process and sped up through the Podsnap Technique, babies being conditioned through Hypnopaedia and the electric shocks.
What is the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre?
Explain how this Quote Applies to The World State:
“Ford, we are twelve; oh, make us one, Like drops within the Social River; Oh, make us now together run As swiftly as thy shining Flivver. Come, Greater Being, Social Friend, Annihilating Twelve-in-One! We long to die, for when we end, Our larger life has but begun. Feel how the Greater Being comes! Rejoice and, in rejoicings, die! Melt in the music of the drums! For I am you and you are I. Orgy-porgy, Ford and fun, Kiss the girls and make them One. Boys at one with girls at peace; Orgy-porgy gives release” (PDF 78-69).
How does The World State create a religion and condition the population to accept its twisted values of acceptable orgies and monogamy.
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How does The World State create a dystopian society with values completely different from our own to manage the stability within the State itself.
How does the Following Theme connect to Brave New World:
Religion can be a powerful driving force for society, but, if gone too far, leads to destruction of civilization.
Possible Answer:
Brave New World uses Ford as a religious figure and, through the technological advancements the World State makes, uses Ford to rationalize the decisions to control and dehumanize the members of the World State.
Comes in many forms including Hypnopaedia, the Bokanovsky Process, Soma, the Assembly Line, and the Model T. Represents the World State's values. Used in many ways to control the population of the World State.
What is Technology
Alpha Plus. To smart for his caste. Thinks critically of the World State and harshly judges its values. Close friends with John. Taught poetry to his class and almost got exiled. Exiled to the Falkland Islands.
Who is Helmholtz Watson?
Name the Character Related closest to this Setting:
A party, full of elite alphas, all eager to meet The Savage. When the Savage refuses to show himself, his popularity capsizes.
Who is Bernard Marx
Explain how this Quote is Related to the World State:
"I ate civilization. It poisoned me; I was defiled. And then, I ate my own wickedness” (PDF 182).
Possible Answer:
The World State poisons its own citizens through the use of Soma as well as the fake happiness that it provides. People from outside of the World State or who do not fit in with the normality of the State, believe it it should be criticized and, at the moment in time, it is a disgusting failed experiment.
Describe a Theme based on the this Quote:
"In spite of their sadness—because of it, even; for their sadness was the symptom of their love for one another—the three young men were happy" (PDF 183).
Possible Answer:
Sadness, pain, and tragedy are required for humanity to experience happiness and, without pain and tragedy, emotions are unable to occur.
What do the Shakespeare The Tempest, Othello, and Romeo and Juliet texts represent?
Possible Answers:
The texts represent freedom and emotion. They represent the exact opposite values that the World State teaches. Represents rebellion, individuality, and the freedom of choice.
Name the Character Most Closely Relate to the Quote:
“Our Ford himself did a great deal to shift the emphasis from truth and beauty to comfort and happiness. Mass production demanded the shift. Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning; truth and beauty can’t. And, of course, whenever the masses seized political power, then it was happiness rather than truth and beauty that mattered” (PDF 172)
Who is Mustapha Mond?
Name the Place described in this quote:
"The channel wound between precipitous banks, and slanting from one wall to the other across the valley ran a streak of green—the river and its fields. On the prow of that stone ship in the centre of the strait, and seemingly a part of it, a shaped and geometrical outcrop of the naked rock, stood the pueblo of ___ Block above block, each story smaller than the one below, the tall houses rose like stepped and amputated pyramids into the blue sky. At their feet lay a straggle of low buildings, a criss-cross of walls; and on three sides the precipices fell sheer into the plain. A few columns of smoke mounted perpendicularly into the windless air and were lost" (PDF 87).
What is Malpais?