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45 Cards in this Set
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soma
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This is used to tranquilize the citizens of the World State
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Mustapha Mond
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one of ten world controllers
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Lenina
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awfully neumatic
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Bernard
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not your average alpha
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Helmholtz
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an excess of mental capability
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the DHC
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Tomakin
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Linda
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Popé's lover
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Popé
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gives John a book
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John
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the savage
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The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
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John's bible
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Fanny
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Lenina's friend
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London
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the primary setting of the novel
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The messiah of the World State
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Henry Ford
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Solidarity Service
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the World State's religion put into practice
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Hypnopaedia
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sleep teaching
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How citizens are made to like their inescapable social destiny
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Conditioning
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Cloning
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Bokanovsky's Process
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Malthusian Belt
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contraception
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Malpais
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Location of the Savage Reservation
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Mitsima
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teaches John to work the clay and make the bow
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Contemplates time and death
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John
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Wants to take walks and talk
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Bernard
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Wishes he could say more
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Helmholtz
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Chose to put aside his own interests
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Mustapha Mond
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Lost his partner at the Savage Reservation
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the DHC
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Really wants to visit the Savage Reservation
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Lenina
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Thinks Lenina should see other men
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Fanny
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What keeps the economy of the World State going
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consumerism
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Defines each citizen's place and role in society
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caste system
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leaders and managers of the World State
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alphas and betas
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workers and laborers of the World State
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gammas, deltas, epsilons
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Where Bernard hovers his helicopter
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The English Channel
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Bernard says this
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"Wouldn't you rather be free to be happy in your own way?"
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Mustapha Mond says this
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"You've got to choose between happiness and what people used to call high art. We've sacrificed the high art."
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Helmholtz says this
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"Why was that old fellow [Shakespeare] such a marvelous propaganda technician? Because he had so many insane, excruciating things to get excited about. You've got to be hurt and upset; otherwise you can't think of the really good, penetrating X-rayish phrases..."
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John says this
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"I claim them all."
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Lenina says this
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"Put your arms around me...Hug me till you drug me, honey...Kiss me till I'm in a coma. Hug me honey, snuggly..."
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Linda says this
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"So they're having children all the time - like dogs. It's too revolting...And yet John was a great comfort to me."
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the DHC says this
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"What man has joined, nature is powerless to put asunder."
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Where John goes to live
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lighthouse
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Where Bernard is exiled
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Iceland
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Where Helmholtz chooses to live
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Falkland Islands
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Fanny says this
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"And then he spends most of his time by himself – alone."
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The World State's motto
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"Community, Identity, Stability"
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The year the story takes place
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AF 632
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