Questions and Answers the Novel of Brave New World

Compare and contrast Bernard and Lenina’s personalities. 

Do they have differing desires and...Bernard Marx and Lenina Crowne are almost complete opposites in every respect?

Bernard is a thinking man, anintellectual who's come to realize the true, sickening nature of the dystopian society...1

Educator answerBrave New WorldIn the book Brave New World, how is it shown that freedom is more important than happiness?

Huxley gives us a picture of a world in which the ordinary problems of life as we know it have seemingly been eliminated through scientific planningand the use of drugs. But selective breeding...1 

Educator answerBrave New WorldIn Huxley's novel, Brave New World, which is more important, freedom or happiness?

How is this...As with any question, the answer depends on an interpretation of words, especially in this case, because both "freedom" and"happiness" are relative terms and canbe defined differently by...1

Educator answerBrave New WorldWhy do they condition babies?In order for the World State to maintain a completely comfortable, stable society, the State must biologically engineer and condition infants to accept their specified rolesin society while...1 

Educator answerBrave New WorldHenry Ford, inventor of the assembly line that made mass production possible, looms large as a...Ford has replaced "Lord" in the language of the World State, and the sign of the "T," in memory of Ford's Model T car, has replaced the sign of the cross. Mustapha Mond, controller of the World...1

Educator answerBrave New WorldWhat is the social class in Brave New World?I

n Brave New World social class is based on a rigid hierarchy created by genetic engineering. The state planners have designed levels of intelligence in the population which are a futuristic...

Educator answerBrave New Worldwhy do they take soma in Brave New World?

Soma is a drug that makes people feel better by altering their consciousness to a more dreamlike state. People take soma when they start to have bad feelings. It helps to take the edge off their...

Educator answerBrave New WorldIs Imagery evident in Brave New World?

Yes, Huxley relies heavily on imagery to describe both the World State and the Indian Reservation. Imagery is description that uses the five senses of sight, sound, touch, smell, and taste. To...

Educator answerBrave New WorldWhy does John have so much troubledealing with the children and the Head Nurse?

John is experiencing a good deal of grief about his mother dying and can'tunderstand why children are being allowed to intrude on the experience. They pop up around Linda's bed as John sits with...

Educator answerBrave New WorldHow can Freud’s concept of Oedipus complex be used to describe John the Savage?

Freud's Oedipus complex states that young boys unconsciously want to killtheir fathers so they can have their mothers to themselves. Young boys want to have sex with their mothers, according to...

Educator answerBrave New WorldHow would you psycho-analyze John the Savage in Brave New World by Aldous Huxley?

Dystopian literature often depicts a single character who is a symbol of"the past," the old world that has been swept away and has been replaced by the anti-utopian world of the present. John,...

Educator answerBrave New WorldWhat is the requirement for any new games?

Why is this so?In chapter 3, the Director shows the students several hundred naked children playing while twenty childrenpatiently stand next to a chrome steeltower, which is an essential apparatus needed to...

Educator answersBrave New WorldWhy is Henry Ford, who invented assembly line manufacturing along with the first Ford...

In the World State depicted in Huxley's novel, Henry Ford is treated like a deity or a prophet. His is name used in conversation much as a modern English speaker might use the name of God ("Oh...

Educator answerBrave New WorldWhat are the connections to our world in Brave New World?

Aldous Huxley's Brave New World (1932), along with George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), is one of the books most cited when it comes to the genre of political dystopia. Comparisons to these...1

Educator answerBrave New WorldAccording to the director, why did Ford decide that families were dangerous?

According to the director, Ford determined that families were dangerous because they had fathers, who made people miserable, and mothers, who brought with them psychological "perversions" that...

Educator answerBrave New WorldWhat do we learn happens to the people when they die? 

How do Bernard and Lenina respond to this ?In Brave New World, people are cremated after they die and then forgotten. As Bernard and Lenina fly around in their helicopter, they see the four chimneys of the Slough Crematorium. It is lit up...

Educator answerBrave New WorldWhat is meant by pneumatic in reference to girls?

The word "pneumatic" is used by Huxley quite a lot in Brave New World. In its normal usage, it refers tosomething full of air, such as tires, forexample. In the context of the story, however, it...

Educator answerBrave New WorldWhy do the patients in the hospital cause John to shudder when he looksat them?

The hospital patients in Brave New World cause John to react this way due to the clinical, unemotional setting in which they rapidly head toward death under the influence of soma. Death is treated...

Educator answerBrave New WorldWhat motivates Bernard and Helmholtz’s friendship?

Bernard and Helmholtz are very different characters, and they are motivated in this friendship by different things. Though he is an Alpha, Bernard does not have the finer things in life that...

    Educator answerBrave New WorldWhat is ironic about Lenina’s comment “And you feel so small when you’re on the ground at...Lenina makes this comment as she and Marx arrive at the Savage Reservation. 

They walk towards a large mesa or wall of rock that towersup. Lenina is out of place in this world. She says: “I wish...

    Educator answerBrave New WorldHow is Huxley satirizing mysticism inBrave New World?Mysticism is the experience of direct communion with ultimate reality, spiritual truth, or God (Merriam Webster). Huxley satirizes not so much the concept of mysticism as the way it is debased in...

    Educator answersBrave New WorldIdentify rhetorical features in Brave New World. (allusions, imagery, allegory, symbols and motifs)The title of the novel itself is an allusion, an ironic reference to Shakespeare's play The Tempest. It is ironic because this "new world" of the World State is anything but"brave": people seldom...

    Educator answerBrave New WorldWhat effect does the repetition of thephrase "straight from the horse's mouth" have in Brave New...Animal imagery plays a nuanced role in Brave New World, and the repetition of "straight from the horse's mouth" plays into the functionof animal motifs throughout the book. There is a strong...

    Educator answerBrave New WorldHow does Bernard feel about soma?

Bernard dislikes the use of soma because the drug induces a false sense of self. Soma is a drug produced and provided to the residents by the government. The drug is provided with the aim of...

  Educator answerBrave New WorldWhy does Utopia make the idea of family something unacceptable and unsavory?

In Brave New World, the idea of family is unacceptable and unsavory because it goes against this society'skey philosophies. For a start, a family (the traditional unit for the procreation of...

  Educator answersBrave New WorldExplain how John the Savage uses physical punishment as a way to try to cleanse and purify...In chapter 18 of Brave New World, John the Savage mutilates his own body as a means of purifying himself.In his isolated lighthouse, for example, John whips his "rebellious flesh" and endures all...

  Educator answerBrave New WorldHow is the quote, "Community. Identity. Stability" achieved within theWorld State?

Explain by...In Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, those in power have engineered a society that is community-oriented and impeccably stable. People's identities are assigned to them at birth, and this creates a...

  Educator answerBrave New WorldHow are Bernard and Helmholtz alike?

In Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, Bernard and Helmholtz both feel like outsiders in the civilized world. Both of them are Alpha-Plus males who perceive themselves as being different from those...

  Educator answerBrave New WorldHow do the people in Brave New World see art?

The citizens of Aldous Huxley's BraveNew World have been conditioned to only enjoy low, vulgar art which promotes the self-indulging values ofthis society. Children are given electric shocks when...

    Educator answerBrave New WorldIn the first line of Brave New World byAldous Huxley, the reader learns the tri-partite pillars...All of these pillars, community, identity, and stability, are achieved and maintained in similar ways. The main process by which these are achieved is conditioning. As the Director explains: All...

Educator answersBrave New WorldWhat does Bunk mean?

The word "bunk" is short for"bunkum," an old-fashioned way of saying "nonsense." Henry Ford, the famous car manufacturer and industrialist, coined the expression"history is bunk." What he meant...

Educator answerBrave New WorldHow does hypnopaedia represent social control?Hypnopaedia is the principle of sleep teaching. It represents social control because it is used to condition all of the children. The Director explains that while hypnopaedia is not useful for...

Educator answerBrave New WorldDo you think Brave New World could happen today?

Brave New World is a work of fiction based on scientific and psychologicalideas that are obsolete at best. It does not describe what even Huxley would have considered a probable future and was not...

  Educator answerBrave New WorldWhat is the relevance of Brave New World today?

Huxley's Brave New World remains relevant in today's society because this fictional civilization, in many ways, parallels America's affinity for sex, science, and pharmaceuticals. InHuxley's...

  Educator answerBrave New WorldWhat are the similarities between Brave New World and today's society?

Generally speaking, the societies of Brave New World and our world are very different but, on closer examination, there are some similarities. Firstly, the ability to reproduce artificially is a...

  Educator answersBrave New WorldHow does the society in Brave New World compare to modern society?

There are various ways in which modern society mimics that of Brave New World. Medical Science While there is nothing to parallel the activities of the CENTRAL LONDON HATCHERY AND CONDITIONING...

  Educator answerBrave New WorldOne of the twins happily asks John if Linda is dead. What does John do to the child?

After a date with Lenina that ends with John shoving her and forcing herto hide in a bathroom, John is notified by phone that his mother has overdosed on soma. Soma is a drug that people take...

  Educator answerBrave New WorldTo whom does John call out to as hismother dies in Brave New World?

As his mother, Linda, dies, John calls out, "Oh, God, God, God..." and he repeats this to himself. John realizes that Linda has died sooner than she normally would have because she has been taking...

  Educator answerBrave New WorldA nurse in the ward scolds John for his emotional display. What is she afraid will happen to the...To properly understand the nurse's reaction to John's emotional display, it is necessary to understand the social structure of the society presented in Brave New World. Compliant citizens are...

Educator answerBrave New WorldA nurse on the ward scolds John for his emotional display. What is she afraid will happen to the...The nurse is afraid that the group of Bokanovsky clones will respond negatively to John's emotional reaction to his mother's death. Children in the futuristic setting of thenovel are conditioned...

Educator answerBrave New WorldIn Chapter 14 of Brave New World, what does Linda say in a loving way when she wakes up right...When John, the Savage, sees his mother, Linda, in the hospital, she does not seem to know who he is. When he stands by her bed, she merely says, "Popé," the name of her lover who used to bring her...

   Educator answerBrave New WorldIn Chapter 14 of the novel Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, John goes tothe hospital and asks...After rushing to get to his mother at Park Lane Hospital, John finds her quickly approaching death. The nurses, stripped of human emotion orany appreciation for the concept of family, are shocked...

Educator answerBrave New WorldWhat are the six steps of the Bokanovsky Process in the novel"Brave New World"?

The fertilized ova were taken to the incubators where the Alphas and Betas were separated from the Gammas, Deltas, and Epsilons. The Alphas and Betas were bottled, while the Gammas, Deltas, and...

  Educator answersBrave New WorldWhat role does genetic engineering and conditioning play in the manipulation of people’s...The world Huxley describes values stability and conformity above all else. Genetic engineering and conditioning are the crucial elements that ensure stability and conformity will occur. Genetic...

   Educator answersBrave New WorldHow is Aldous Huxley's own life reflected in Brave New World?

The easy answer to this is question isthat, like the characters in the book who took the mind-altering drug soma, Huxley also experimented withmind-altering drugs such as mescaline and, most...

Educator answerBrave New WorldHow does the following quote by Edward Said apply to Brave New World?

"Exile is strangely...This quote by Edward Said can be applied, in particular, to two characters: Linda and her son John, the "Savage." Linda, the perfectly conditioned Beta, finds herself trapped on the Savage...

  Educator answerBrave New WorldHow can I connect the book "Brave New World" to our world psychologically?

Motifs and themes of manipulation of human life, desensitization, and the dangers of a powerful government in Brave New World can be connected to American contemporary society. Manipulation of...

Educator answerBrave New WorldHow does A Brave New World by Aldous Huxley connect to modern lifepsychologically?

A Brave New World critiques the psychological implications of modern society's reliance on technology. 

In the World State, human truths, such as love and friendship, are repressed because...

  Educator answerBrave New WorldIn Huxley's Brave New World, in what ways does Bernard Marx abuse power?

Bernard Marx abuses power by hurting others as he selfishly seeks popularity. He is an Alpha, which means that he is at the top of the caste system and is highly intelligent.As a result, he treats...1 educator answerLakota Woman

What is the World State's response tooverpopulation in Brave New World by Aldous Huxley?

The World State's response to overpopulation is to regulate the type and number of the population on a global scale.