Brave New World

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Where does the novel opens?

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Central London Hatching and Conditioning Centre

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caste embryo that are destined to become the leaders and thinkers of the World State

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The Alpha embryos

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stunted and stupefied by caste embryo that oxygen deprivation and chemical treatments: are destined to perform menial labor

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The Epsilons

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describes to the boys how she vaccinates embryos destined for tropical climates

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Leena crown

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methods used to teach children the morals of the World State

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“hypnopaedic”

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one of the ten World Controllers, introduces himself to the boys and begins to explain the history of the World State, focusing on the State’s successful efforts to remove strong emotions, desires, and human relationships from society

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Mustapha Mond

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The son of the Director and Linda, John is the only major character to have grown up outside of the World State. The consummate outsider, he has spent his life alienated from his village on the New Mexico Savage Reservation, and he finds himself similarly unable to fit in to World State society. His entire worldview is based on his knowledge of Shakespeare’s plays, which he can quote with great facility

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John

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An Alpha male who fails to fit in because of his inferior physical stature. He holds unorthodox beliefs about sexual relationships, sports, and community events. His insecurity about his size and status makes him discontented with the World State. Bernard’s surname recalls Karl Marx, the nineteenth-century German author best known for writing Capital, a monumental critique of capitalist society. Unlike his famous namesake, Bernard’s discontent stems from his frustrated desire to fit into his own society, rather than from a systematic or philosophical criticism of it. When threatened, Bernard can be petty and cruel

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Bernard Marx

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An Alpha lecturer at the College of Emotional Engineering, Helmholtz is a prime example of his caste, but feels that his work is empty and meaningless and would like to use his writing abilities for something more meaningful. He and Bernard are friends because they find common ground in their discontent with the World State, but Helmholtz’s criticisms of the World State are more philosophical and intellectual than Bernard’s more petty complaints. As a result, Helmholtz often finds Bernard’s boastfulness and cowardice tedious

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Helmholtz Watson

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A vaccination worker at the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre. She is an object of desire for a number of major and minor characters, including Bernard Marx and John. Her behavior is sometimes intriguingly unorthodox, which makes her attractive to the reader. For example, she defies her culture’s conventions by dating one man exclusively for several months, she is attracted to Bernard—the misfit—and she develops a violent passion for John the Savage. Ultimately, her values are those of a conventional World State citizen: her primary means of relating to other people is through sex, and she is unable to share Bernard’s disaffection or to comprehend John’s alternate system of values.

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Lenina Crowne

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The Resident World Controller of Western Europe, one of only ten World Controllers. He was once an ambitious, young scientist performing illicit research. When his work was discovered, he was given the choice of going into exile or training to become a World Controller. He chose to give up science, and now he censors scientific discoveries and exiles people for unorthodox beliefs. He also keeps a collection of forbidden literature in his safe, including Shakespeare and religious writings. The name Mond means “world,” and Mond is indeed the most powerful character in the world of this novel.

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Mustapha Mond

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Lenina Crowne’s friend (they have the same last name because only about ten thousand last names are in use in the World State). Fanny’s role is mainly to voice the conventional values of her caste and society. Specifically, she warns Lenina that she should have more men in her life because it looks bad to concentrate on one man for too long

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Fanny Crowne

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One of Lenina’s many lovers, he is a perfectly conventional Alpha male, casually discussing Lenina’s body with his coworkers. His success with Lenina, and his casual attitude about it, infuriate the jealous Bernard

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Henry Foster

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John’s mother, and a Beta. While visiting the New Mexico Savage Reservation, she became pregnant with the Director’s son. During a storm, she got lost, suffered a head injury and was left behind. A group of Indians found her and brought her to their village. Linda could not get an abortion on the Reservation, and she was too ashamed to return to the World State with a baby. Her World State–conditioned promiscuity makes her a social outcast. She is desperate to return to the World State and to soma

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Linda

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The Director administrates the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre. He is a threatening figure, with the power to exile Bernard to Iceland. But he is secretly vulnerable because he fathered a child (John), a scandalous and obscene act in the World State

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The Director

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The Arch-Community-Songster is the secular, shallow equivalent of an archbishop in the World State society

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The Arch-Community-Songster

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Popé was Linda’s lover on the New Mexico Savage Reservation. He gave Linda a copy of The Complete Works of Shakespeare

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Popé

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The Warden is the talkative chief administrator for the New Mexico Savage Reservation. He is an Alpha

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The Warden

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meaning of A.F.

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After Ford

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involves shocking an egg so that it divides to form up to ninety-six identical embryos, which then develop into ninety-six identical human beings

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Bokanovsky Process

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embryos never undergo this dividing process, which can weaken the embryos

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The Alpha and Beta

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The cloning process is one of the tools the World State uses to implement its guiding motto.....

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“Community, Identity, Stability

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speeds up the ripening process of eggs within a single ovary

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Podsnap’s Technique

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ensure the lower intelligence and smaller size of members of the three lower castes

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Oxygen deprivation and alcohol treatment