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Brave New World
Brave New World Characters and Important Terms
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Literature
12th Grade
05/12/2013

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Bernard Marx
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Alpha; Doesn't fit in; Different beliefs about everything; Insecure
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Henry Foster
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Alpha; The stat guy; One of Leninas lover
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Lenina Crowne
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Beta; Nurse in Hatchery Center; purple eyes; uncommonly pretty
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Mustapha Mond
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The world controller; middle-height; black hair; hooked nose; full red lips; dark eyes
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"Tomakin"
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Alpha; DHC; Tall and thin; Horse teeth; Long chin; Nobody knows how old he is
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Alphas, Betas, Gammas, Deltas, Epsilons
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5 castes of Utopia
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Bokanovsky's Process
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One egg can divide up to 96 times, to mass production
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Bottling
Definition
Putting the embryos in the pig skin bottles
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Central London Hatchery
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Where the children are created and conditioned
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Conditioning (Neo-Pavlovian)
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Sleep teaching, shock therapy
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Decanting
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Taking the babies out of the bottle
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Ectogenesis
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The birth outside of the human body
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Fertilizing Room
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When the human sex cells are united
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Ford
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Utopian Idol "Their God"
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Freemartin
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The "question marks" - not exactly male but not exactly female; 70 percent of females are like this
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Podsnaps Technique
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The accelerated ripening process for the eggs
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T-model
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The Utopian "cross"
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Helmholtz Watson
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Alpha; Lecturer at the college of emotional engineering; feels his work is meaningless; disconnected from world state
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Bernard Marx
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“It suddenly struck me the other day that it might be possible to be an adult all the time. I know you
don’t. And that’s why we went to bed together yesterday - Like infants - Instead of being adults and
waiting.”
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Bernard Marx
Definition
“When it’s you who were the cause of it all. Refusing to come to my party and so turning them all
against me!”
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Bernard Marx
Definition
“And I had six girls last week … One on Monday, two on Tuesday, two more on Friday, and one more
on Saturday.”
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Bernard Marx
Definition
“And, anyhow, hadn’t you better wait till you actually see the new world?”
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Bernard Marx
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“I wonder if you’d like to come back to London with us.”
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Bernard Marx
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“He was ashamed of his jealousy and alternately made efforts of will and took soma to keep himself
from feeling it. But the efforts were not very successful…”
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Fanny
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“Well you must preserve…Nothing can be achieved without perseverance”
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Henry Foster
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“Perhaps you need a pregnancy substitute”
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Lenina Crowne
Definition
“…the first thing they all want to know is what it’s like to make love to a savage. And I have to say I
don’t know"
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Lenina Crowne
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“But how can they live like this?”
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Lenina Crowne
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“But he’s the one I want.”
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Lenina Crowne
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“Because, you see, Fanny, I like him.”
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Lenina Crowne
Definition
“If I didn’t like you so much,” she said, “I’d be furious with you”
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Lenina Crowne
Definition
“Ow, you’re hurting me, you’re…oh!” She was suddenly silent. Terror made her forget the pain.
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Lenina Crowne
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“Hug me till you drug me, honey”
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Lenina Crowne
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“Kiss me till I’m in a coma. Hug me, honey, snuggly…”
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Helmholtz Watson
Definition
“Did you ever feel as though you had something inside you that was only waiting for you to give it a
chance to come out? Some sort of extra power that you aren’t using- you know, like all the water that
goes down the falls instead of though the turbines?”
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Helmholtz Watson
Definition
“Why was that old fellow 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 real good, penetrating, X-rayish phrases. But fathers and mothers!”
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Helmholtz Watson
Definition
“I wanted to do a bit of propaganda. I was trying to engineer them into feeling as I felt when I wrote the
rhymes.”
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Helmholtz Watson
Definition
“Helmholtz listened to his boastings in a silence so gloomily disapproving… “I’m rather sad, that’s all.”
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Helmholtz Watson
Definition
“As though I were just beginning to have something to write about. As though I were beginning to be
able to use that power I feel I’ve got inside me- that extra, latent power. Something seems to be coming
to me.”
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DHC
Definition
“ Ladies and gentlemen… excuse me for this interrupting your labours. A painful duty constrains me.
The security and stability of society are in danger. Yes, in danger, ladies and gentlemen. This
man…this man who stands before you here, this Alpha-plus to whom so much has been given, and from
whom in consequence, so much has been expected, this colleague? Has grossly betrayed the trust
imposed on him…”
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Mustapha Mond
Definition
“Stability,” “stability. No civilization without social stability. No social stability
without individual stability.”“Stability,” said the Controller, “stability. No civilization without social stability. No social stability
without individual stability.”
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John
Definition
“How much I love you, Lenina.”
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John
Definition
“I wanted to do something first… I mean, to show I was worthy of you.”
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John
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“Alone, always alone”
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John
Definition
He stood for a moment in frozen silence, then fell on his knees beside the bed and, covering his
face with his hands, sobbed uncontrollably
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John
Definition
“Not until … Listen, Lenina; in Malpais people get married.”
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John
Definition
“But do you like being slaves?” “Do you like being babies?”
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John
Definition
“To think it should be coming true-what I’ve dreamt of all my life.”
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John
Definition
“I wanted to do something first… I mean, to show I was worthy of you. Not that I could ever really be
theat. But at any rate, to show I wasn’t absolutely un-worthy. I had to do something."
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John
Definition
“Well, I’d rather be unhappy than have the sort of false, lying happiness you were having here.”
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John
Definition
“O brave new world,”
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John
Definition
“WHORE!” he shouted. “WHORE! Impudent strumpet!”
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John
Definition
“Quick! Something’s happened. I’ve killed her”
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John
Definition
“He stood for a moment in frozen silence, then fell on his knees beside the bed and, covering his
face with his hands, sobbed uncontrollably”
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John
Definition
“If ones different, ones bound to be lonely…"
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Linda
Definition
“I’m not your mother. I won’t be your mother.”
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Linda
Definition
“You made me have a baby.”
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Linda
Definition
“It wasn’t my fault, Tomakin. Because I always did my drill, didn’t I?"
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Bernard Marx
Definition
“I’m rather different from most people, I suppose. If one happens to be decanted different…”
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Bernard Marx
Definition
“And if I’d had the time or the inclination, there were at least a dozen more who were only too anxious…”
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Bernard Marx
Definition
“The savage, shows surprisingly little astonishment at, or awe of, civilized inventions.”
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Bernard Marx
Definition
“partly on his interest being focused on what he calls ‘the soul’, which he persists in regarding as an entity
independent of the physical environment, whereas, as I tried to point out to him…”
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Lenina
Definition
“I shall be seeing him, talking to him, telling him…”
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Lenina
Definition
“that I like him-more than anybody I’ve ever know. And then perhaps he’ll say…”
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Lenina
Definition
“But, John…I thought you were…I mean, aren’t you?…”
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Lenina
Definition
"but i thought it was lovely.."
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Helmholtz Watson
Definition
“You can’t expect me to keep a straight face about mothers and fathers”
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Helmholtz Watson
Definition
“I’m rather sad, that’s all.”
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Helmholtz Watson
Definition
“I know quite well that one needs ridiculous, mad situations like that: one can’t simply write really well
about anything else”
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Helmholtz Watson
Definition
"Ford helps those who help themselves"
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Helmholtz Watson
Definition
“I feel” he said, after a silence, “ as though I were just beginning to have something to write about. As
though I were beginning to be able to use that power I feel I’ve got in side of me”
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Helmholtz Watson
Definition
“And who’s going to get excited about a boy having a girl or not having her"
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DHC
Definition
“We can make a new one with the greatest ease—as many as we like. Unorthodoxy threatens more than the life
of a mere individual; it strikes at Society itself...”
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DHC
Definition
“It is better that one should suffer then that many should be corrupted”
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DHC
Definition
“can you give me any reason why I should not now execute the judgment passed upon you?”
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Mustapha Mond
Definition
pha Mond
 “What fun it would be,” he thought, “if one didn’t have to think about happiness!”
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Mustapha Mond
Definition
“It’s prohibited, you see. But as I make the laws here, I can also break them.”
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Mustapha Mond
Definition
“But that’s the price we have to pay for stability. You’ve got to choose between happiness and what
people used to call high art.”
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