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BRAVE NEW WORLD By Aldous Huxley Reading guide Introduction 1. “A Brave New World, where humans are bred and conditions scientifically to create a society in which people have peaceful, reasonably happy lives, but no individual freedom or opportunity for passion.” Do you think this is a perfect society? 2. “Everybody has a work and nobody is dissatisfied with their position in a socially stable society.” Is that a quality of a good society? 3. “But there is a shadowy emptiness at the heart of this existence which only a few people are aware of.” What do you think that emptiness is? 4. What is A.F.? Chapter 1. The Centre. 1. The World State’s motto suggests that community, identity, and stability are the most important qualities in their society. Do you agree? Are those qualities important in any society? 2. “Details, as everyone knows, lead to virtue and happiness; generalities, though necessary for some purposes, are dangerous. A peaceful and efficient society is based on practical workers, not on thinkers.” Do you agree with this statement? 3. Explain the fertilization process used in Brave New World. 4. What is Bokanovsky’s process? Which classes undergo this process? 5. Why would Bokanovsky’s process help create social stability? 6. What is the purpose of depriving some embryos of adequate oxygen? 7. According to the Director, what is the secret of happiness and virtue? Do you agree with him? 8. Explain some of the processes that the Centre uses to prepare embryos for their “inescapable social destiny”

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