Characters
World State conditioning teaches children to view this ultimate end not with sadness, but with casual cheerfulness.
What is Death?
"A gramme is better than a damn."
Who is Lenina Crowne
This hypnopaedic phrase is drilled into every person's mind in order to allow for stability and promiscuity.
What is "every one belongs to every one else"?
This is the specific U.S. state where the World State visitors land to access the Reservation.
What is New Mexico?
"I am I, and wish I wasn't."
Who is Bernard Marx (expressing self-pity)?
The Controller says that this is the reason babies are conditioned to hate books and flowers.
What is to promote consumption (or because they are gratuitous/free)?
The World State enforces a ban on these two types of close, traditional family relationships, which are viewed as emotionally dangerous.
What are Mother and Father (or Marriage and Family)?
What is the job title of Mustapha Mond, who holds the highest position in the World State's governance?
World Controller
Bernard's career and status are abruptly threatened when he is told he is being transferred to this desolate, chilly location.
What is Iceland?
"Do you like it?" (Referring to the World State) "No, I don't. But then, I'm not a World Controller
Who is John (to Bernard, discussing his new life)?
The practice of dividing a fertilized egg into many identical twins for mass production
What is Bokanovsky's Process?
The World State's main instrument for social control, provided by the government to keep citizens complacent.
What is Soma?
Name the former acquaintance of the D.H.C. who was accidentally left on the Reservation after a trip to New Mexico.
Who is Linda?
John's final, desperate act after Linda's death is to throw away the supply of this synthetic happiness drug.
What is soma?
"I don't understand anything. I don't understand why we can't be together, me and you."
Who is Lenina Crowne (confused by John's rejection)?
The five major castes of the World State are labeled by the colors of their uniforms. This color is worn by the Deltas.
What is Khaki?
The World Controller says that this intense pursuit, which is responsible for much of the world's tragic literature, is incompatible with social stability.
What is Love (or Deep Emotional Ties)?
This title is what the World State press gives John after he becomes a sensation and public curiosity.
What is The Savage?
Before she dies, Linda briefly awakens and mistakes John for this former lover from the Reservation.
Who is Popé?
"I feel like a victim of a horrible practical joke." (Said after an embarrassing event)
Who is Bernard Marx (after John refuses to attend his party)?
This is the specific chemical element in which the embryo is starved to create the smaller-sized Delta and Epsilon castes.
What is Oxygen?
The specific type of large, communal gathering that ends in a frenzied circle dance and mass consumption of Soma.
What is an Orgy-porgy?
This character is the only person Bernard feels comfortable enough with to share his deepest, most critical thoughts about the World State.
Who is Helmholtz Watson?
This religious symbol, which Lenina finds "unpleasantly and significantly familiar," is something she sees on the Reservation.
What is a Cross (or crucifix)?
"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."
Who is John (to Mustapha Mond)?
World State citizens often make a gesture in the air, similar to crossing oneself, when swearing on the name of this historical industrialist.
Who is Ford?
The conditioning technique that uses loud noises and electric shocks to create an ingrained, immediate dislike of nature and books.
What is Neo-Pavlovian Conditioning?