Characterization
This character feels like an outsider because of his physical stature and rumored "alcohol in his blood-surrogate."
Who is Bernard Marx?
While at the Reservation, Lenina is horrified to witness this ritual involving a young man and a whip.
What is the fertility rite (or snake dance/sacrifice)?
"The machine hummed like a giant insect" is an example of this comparison using "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
This "civilized" location is where embryos are conditioned, a process the Director explains with pride before his downfall.
What is the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre?
Soma is used for this purpose in the World State.
What is ensuring stability and eliminating unhappiness?
Described as "pneumatic," she is the quintessential citizen who finds the Reservation's lack of hygiene repulsive.
Who is Lenina Crowne?
Bernard’s primary motivation for bringing John and Linda back to London is to use them as weapons against this person.
Who is the Director?
The phrase "Ford, we are twelve; oh, make us one" is part of this recurring image or idea used to develop the theme of religion.
What is a motif?
In the Reservation, this biological process is visible on people’s faces and bodies, a "trait" that does not exist in the World State thanks to youth-preserving technology.
What is aging?
This process of sleep-teaching is used to instill class prejudices and moral values into children while they doze.
What is Hypnopaedia?
The Director reveals to Bernard that he once lost a girl at the Reservation, a girl who is later revealed to be this character’s mother.
Who is John (the Savage)?
Before leaving the Reservation, John breaks into the rest-house and watches Lenina sleep, quoting this famous playwright.
Who is William Shakespeare?
When Huxley describes the bottles of embryos as "sucking" at their nutrient tubes as if they were alive, he is using this device.
What is personification?
The World State enforces this motto: "Community, Identity," and this third, most important pillar.
What is Stability?
In a satirical twist, the World State has replaced the Christian Cross with this symbol, honoring an industrialist.
What is the T (from the Model T)?
A Lecturer at the College of Emotional Engineering who feels his mental prowess has created a "barrier" between him and others.
Who is Helmholtz Watson?
After their date, Henry and Lenina fly over this structure, where "phosphorus recovery" turns the deceased into fertilizer for the World State.
What is the Slough Crematorium?
Huxley uses this device when describing the "thousands" of identical twins as a "nightmare," purposefully overstating the reality for effect.
What is hyperbole?
The World State utilizes this "Social" process to ensure every citizen is perfectly suited—and limited—to their future job.
What is Predestination?
The World State practices this by banning "old" books, particularly those written by Shakespeare, because they are beautiful and "useless."
What is censorship?
This character is publicly humiliated when his past indiscretion and fatherhood are revealed.
Who is Thomas, The Director (D.H.C.)?
Bernard and eleven others consume soma-tablets and "strawberry ice cream soma" during this ritual.
What is a Ford's Day Service (or Solidarity Service)?
"The warm jelly of the World State" is this device, directly comparing society to a structureless, soft substance.
What is a metaphor?
The setting of the Reservation is a "syncretic" environment, meaning it symbols the blending of these two specific, conflicting belief systems.
What are Christianity and Tribalism?
The phrase "ending is better than mending" showcases what feature of a dystopian society to boost the enconomy?
What is propaganda?