2. What is hypnopaedia and how do they use it in
chapter two?
Hypnopaedia is known as the process of "sleep learning"
DHC talks about its history during the time of Ford
Way of teaching MORALS and not FACTS
Used in Chapter 2 during the conditioning of Betas
"Alpha children wear grey. They work much harder than we do, because
they're so frightfully clever..." pg 27
3. What does the DHC mean when he says that
Bokanovsky‟s Process is one of the major
instruments of Social stability?
Ties to theme of Community, Identity, Stability vs. Individual Freedom
In order for stability to exist, conflict must be depleted
Bokanovsky's Process is the ability to create multiple children (8-96) out of
one female embryo
Major instrument because it is a way of making everyone the same in one
social group, and if all are the same within that group, there is no problem
with stability
Classes are separated, and all are equal per class
4. Describe the Bokanovsky‟s Process.
Bokanovsky's Process is the ability to create multiple children (8-96) out of
one female embryo
Done unto Gammas, Deltas, and Epsilons
Series of steps of development
Due to this process, eggs begin to bud, and multiply from a spectrum of 8 to
96 buds
These buds then grow into female embryos
These embryos will then produce full human beings, giving up to 96 more
humans than a normal embryo would be able to develop
5. Why can‟t anyone Bokanovskify indefinitely?
Indefinite Bokanovskify is impossible because male gametes can only ever
handle 96 reproductions and 72 on average per ova
6. What is the purpose of freemartins?
70% of embryos given male sex hormone ~ non functioning ovaries
Process is flawless expect for the fact that some female may grow beards
Purpose is to eliminate chances of fertility
Mr. Foster says, “in the vast majority of cases, fertility is merely a nuisance”
(page 13)
7. What did they do to the eight month Deltas in the
infant nursery?
Process called conditioning
Unloaded into area with flowers and books
Explosion lead the children into terror
Books offered once again and infants backed away
8. Why were the Gammas, Deltas, and Epsilons once
conditioned to like flowers? What made them
change their minds and condition them to hate
nature? to travel to the country resulting in consumption of transportation
Compelled
But only consumed transportation since nature was free
Conditioned to love country sports which required equipment
9. Why do the people of the new world fear the
concept of parents?
The people regard viviparous birth as inhumane, even taboo.
The concept of fathers and mothers are seen as almost vulgar words.
Probably the cause of the government who may have conditioned the
people to think that certain way in order for the citizens not to try to
reproduce, allowing the government to control the population (stability)
10. Why do they have the Beta children conditioned not
to associate with other classes?
Beta children are prevented from mingling with other social classes; it
distinguishes them from other castes.
Helps the government bring about order, and creates morals for them.
11. How does the mass production of humans affect
individuality?
Much of the population consist of sets of identical twins (8 to 96 people)
which eliminates with differences between people‟s likings, natural
dispositions, and genetic characteristics that define individuality
People do not choose positions based on their talents and preferences, they
are given them.
Citizens do not develop their intelligence, they are designated with a specific
intellectual level.
12.
13. The class will be divided into three
groups.
For each of the ten rounds, the groups
will choose a single representative.
A definition will be provided. The
representatives must pick the correct
corresponding word to win the round.
[prizes will be given to the winners]
15. producing living young instead of eggs
from within the body in the manner of
nearly all mammals, many reptiles, and
a few fishes
16. such as is or might be caused by
nervousness or shakiness
17. A clear; usually seasoned broth made by
straining water in which beef, chicken,
etc.
18. an unborn or unhatched vertebrate
especially after attaining the basic
structural plan of its kind; specifically : a
developing human from usually two
months after conception to birth
23. winning favor and confidence by
imperceptible degrees
24. Tall, thin and upright
Long chin, prominent teeth, curved lips
Age is hard to depict
“Bokanovsky‟s Process is one of the major instruments of social stability!”
(page 7)
Believes that social stability comes from Bokanovsky‟s Process since the
clones are predestined to do similar tasks at similar machines
This leads to their motto “Community, Identity, Stability”
“That is the secret of happiness and virtue─ liking what you‟ve got to do. All
conditioning aims at that: making people like their inescapable social destiny.”
(page 16)
Belief that happiness is found in social stability. Conditioning again predestines
people to be instinctive in a specific situation (ex. the heat)
25. “Ass! Hasn‟t it occurred to you that an Epsilon embryo must have an Epsilon
environment as well as an Epsilon heredity?” (page 14)
When answering questions always replied with a rude manner often implying
that the student is dumb or unintelligent
“Charming, charming” murmured the director and giving her two or three little
pats, received in exchange a rather deferential smile for himself.
“Charming,” said the Director once more, and, with a final pat, moved away
after the others.
Publically shows superficial attraction towards Lenina
26. Fair-haired, ruddy young man
Spoke quickly, vivacious blue eyes
Director comments on Mr. Foster‟s intelligence and Mr. Foster is enthusiastic to
share his knowledge and guide the students on their tour. “Come along with us,
and give these boys the benefit of your expert knowledge.” Cried the Director.
Mr. Foster smiled modestly, “With pleasure.” (page 9)
“Sixteen thousand and twelve; in one hundred and eighty-nine batches of
identical. But of course they‟ve done much better in some of the tropical
Centres. Singapore has often produced over sixteen thousand five hundred;
and Mombasa has actually touched the seventeen thousand mark.” (page 8-9)
27. Very precise and clear with all figures, pleasure in quoting figures
“Mr. Foster was only too happy to give them a few figures. Two hundred and
twenty metres long, two hundred wide, ten high.” (page 11)
“Eighty-eight cubic metres of card-index” said Mr. Foster with relish, as they
entered. (with relish ~ great enjoyment, take pleasure) (page 16)
Very knowledgeable and educated in topics such as freemartins “so we allow
as many as thirty per cent of the female embryos to develop normally. The
others get a dose of male sex-hormone every twenty-four metres for the rest of
the course.”
28. : minimizing conflict, risk, and change
"From eight to ninety-six buds, and every bud will grow into a perfectly formed
embryo, and every embryo into a full-sized adult“ (page 6)
"Bokanovsky's Process is one of the major instruments of social stability.“
(page 7)
: division of society
"We also predestine and condition. We decant our babies as socialized human
beings, as Alphas or Epsilons“ (page 13)
"How the fertilized ova went back to the incubators; where the Alphas and Betas
remained until definitely bottled; while the Gammas, Deltas, and Epsilons were
brought out again, after thirty-six hours to undergo the Bokanovsky Process“
(page 6)
29. Found as a theme through the combination of the Utopia's Identity and Stability
Opposes normal "Individual Freedom" in societies unlike this one
30. Control of the birth of babies by class, number, predestination, and purpose
through a Fertilizing Room
Conditioned babies in order to function to their specific predestination
"We also predestine and condition. We decant our babies as socialized human
beings, as Alphas or Epsilons“ (page 13)
31. "Ninety-six identical twins working ninety-six identical machines!" The voice
was almost tremulous with enthusiasm. "You really know where you are. For
the first time in history." He quoted the planetary motto. "Community, Identity,
Stability." Grand words. "If we could bokanovskify indefinitely the whole
problem would be solved.“ (page 7)
"And in exceptional cases we can make one ovary yield us over fifteen
thousand adult individuals.“ (page 8)
32. "In brief," the Director summed up, "the parents were the father and the
mother." The smut that was really science fell with a crash into the boys' eye-
avoiding silence. "Mother," he repeated loudly rubbing in the science; and,
leaning back in his chair, "These," he said gravely, "are unpleasant facts; I
know it. But then most historical facts are unpleasant.“ (page 24)
33. "Oh no, I don't want to play with Delta children. And Epsilons are still worse.
They're too stupid to be able to read or write. Besides they wear black, which is
such a beastly colour. I'm so glad I'm a Beta.“ (page 27)
"And now," the Director shouted (for the noise was deafening), "now we
proceed to rub in the lesson with a mild electric shock." He waved his hand
again, and the Head Nurse pressed a second lever. (page 21)
“The nurses obeyed; but at the approach of the roses, at the mere sight of
those gaily-coloured images of pussy and cock-a-doodle-doo and baa-baa
black sheep, the infants shrank away in horror, the volume of their howling
suddenly increased.” (page 21)
34. CENTRAL LONDON HATCHERY AND CONDITIONING CENTRE
Enormous laboratories
“Cold for all the summer beyond the panes, for all the tropical heat of the room
itself, a harsh thin light glared through the windows, hungrily seeking some
draped lay figure, some pallid shape of goose-flesh, but finding only the glass
and nickel and bleakly shinning porcelain of a laboratory” (page 3)
Unpleasant, „cold‟ atmosphere
“The bulging flanks of row on receding row and tier above tier of bottles glinted
with innumerable rubies” (page 11)
Illustrates the mass production of humans ~ factory
35. INFANT NURSERIES. NEO-PAVLOVIAN CONDITIONING ROOMS
Large, bare room
Bright, sunny ~ whole southern wall is a single window
“Big bowls, packed tight with blossom. Thousand of petals, ripe-blown and silkily smooth,
like the cheeks of innumerable little cherubs” (page 19)
contrasting the atmosphere and setting of the unpleasant laboratories with bright room
filled with colourful flowers
Provides greater emotionally impact when the babies are electrocuted ~ misleading setting
36. “A squat building of only thirty-four stories.” (page 3)
i. Signifies that even tall 34 story building are found as small in the
New World
ii. Hints that the average buildings of the New World must be
enormous
“The light was frozen, dead, a ghost.” (page 3)
i. Aids into creating the cold, grim atmosphere of the laboratory
( )
37. “Only from the yellow barrels of the microscopes did it
borrow a certain rich and living substance, lying along
the polished tubes like butter”(page 3)
i. Provides mental image of the Fertilizing Room
ii. Contrasts from the rest of seemingly „cold‟ and bleak Fertilizing
Room
“Whizz and then, click! the lift-hatches flew open”(page
9)
i. Emphasizes the „factory‟ setting/atmosphere ( )
38. “And in effect the sultry darkness into which the students
now followed him was visible and crimson, like the
darkness of closed eyes on a summer‟s afternoon.”
(page 11)
i. Provides a mental image of the red light that floods the Embryo
Store
39. “NEO-PAVLOVIAN CONDITIONING ROOMS” (19)
i. Alludes to the Russian scientist Pavlov who conducted experiments
to determine how conditioning takes place.
ii. In Brave New World, individuals are conditioned to think, act, fell,
believe, and respond the way the government wants them to in
order to achieve stability
40. “Thousand of petals, ripe-blown and silkily smooth, like
the cheeks of innumerable little cherubs” (page 19)
i. Comparison to cherubs (winged beings) contrasting the
atmosphere and setting of the unpleasant laboratories
ii. Provides as the reader attains a pleasant feeling from the
bright flowers only to realize they are being used to condition
(electrocute) the babies
41. “(A small boy asleep on his right side… Tommy burst
into tears. “I don‟t know,” he howls)” (page 25–26)
i. Provides an example and additional information of why early
scientists were discouraged in using Hypnopaedia as a method of
education and why it had been abandoned
42. “Only its thin ghost continued to mutter from beneath
the eighty pillows.” (page 28)
METAPHOR
i. Compares the voice of the sleep-teaching as a ghost
ii. Adds to the unpleasant, „cold‟ atmosphere that is prevalent
throughout both chapters
43. “Not so much like drops of water, through water, it is
true, can wear holes in the hardest granite; rather,
drops of liquid sealing-wax, drops that adhere, incrust,
incorporate themselves with what they fall on, till finally
the rock is all one scarlet blob.” (page 28)
i. Provides an explanation of the idea of Hypnopaedia through the
comparison of liquid wax that the reader can easily understand
ii. Explains that through sleep-teaching, the messages that the child
continually hears will eventually become the mentality of the child
44. Symbolizes the use of animals as way of describing perception of the Director
“Straight from the horse's mouth. It was a rare privilege.“ (page 4)
Talked about constantly throughout both chapters
Means that it is genuine information
Symbolizes the termination of religious views in the society and replaced with
believing that Ford is some kind of god
Time frames are named as A.F. (after Ford)
45. Symbolizes the misuse of science and technology
Described as women who are given male sex hormones in order for them to
not have babies
Also symbolizes the ability of being able to have sexual pleasure without any
"consequences" with multiple partners as promoted by the Director
Symbolizes the elimination of parents and natural reproduction
Shows the technological advancements to an extreme
Links into the process of separation between social classes
46. Symbolizes the ways that identity and stability is linked with community
Shows the predestination of embryos into social classes
Explanation of how cliques and the extrapolation of present world can be put to
the extremes