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Brave New World
Study Guide
Chapter 1:
1. What is the implication of the motto, “Community, Identity, Stability”?
2. Explain the Bokanovsky Process.
3. What are advantages and disadvantages of the Bokanovsky Process?
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4. How does the Bokanvosky Process help to fulfill the State motto?
5. What parallels exist between life in the mother’s womb and life in the Bottling Room and the
Social Predestination Room?
6. Name and briefly explain the castes that make up the population in the World State.
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7. What is the implication of the conditioning process?
8. What cultural and social attitudes of the mid-twentieth century society are observable in the
World State?
Chapter 1 Summary:
Chapter 2:
9. The contemporary world faces the problem of the population outgrowing the available
resources. How is this problem dealt with in the World State?
10. Explain the educational processes that occur in the nurseries – Neo-Pavlovian and
hypnopaedia.
11. In the World State, consumption is emphasized. What comment is Huxley making about
consumption in the contemporary world?
12. Explain how hypnopaedia is the “greatest moralizing and socializing force of all time” (18).
13. What are the dangers of hypnopaedia?
14. What are the contemporary equivalents?
15. How is Ford regarded in the World State?
16. To what extent does Ford have parallels in Western culture?
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