As the chapter progresses, what do you notice about the shifting of scenes and speakers?.What were you able to understand about the drug “soma,” and what is your opinion of this drug? Why do people need soma?.What contradictions do you see between what Mond says and what the others are expressing? Huxley seems to be using the dialogues of Lenina, Fanny, Bernard, and Henry to comment on the lecture or commentary of Mond.What about the population did Huxley get wrong?.What is meant by the paragraph following “History is bunk”?.Note for example, the allusions of Polly Trotsky, Bernard Marx, and Lenina however, the World Controller’s name, Mustapha Mond, has no reference to a real person.

Near the end of Chapter Two, what does Huxley state is the aim of the new world’s conditioning?.Why can hypnopaedia be used to instill more beliefs and emotional attitudes but cannot be used to learn science?.Why are the Delta children conditioned to dislike books and nature?.In a short summary, explain the processes the “Conditioning Center.”.

Who are Henry Foster and Lenina Crowne? What is your opinion of each?.How is Huxley mocking Christianity? Why may some readers be offended by this? Explain.At this point, what is your opinion of Huxley’s new world? Explain your reasons.Explain the motto “Community, Identity, Stability.” What are people giving up to achieve these goals?.How are these titles used? What strikes you as significant about them? Explain the designations this society gives to individuals.

What are some actual scientific principles presented? What seems to be a problem the society has 'all but solved”?.

In this World State, what is the primary function of The Hatchery and Conditioning Center?.

Describe and explain the response of the students to the Director.

In what way is the Bokanovsky process a major instrument of social stability?.

Do you think that anything like this is happening now or might happen in the future? Consider that fact that Huxley wrote this book in 1931 and the many scientific advances since then.

In a short summary, explain the process of the “Hatchery”.

What is the very first indication that Brave New World is a futuristic novel?.

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