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What is the purpose of Lenina’s Malthusian belt? Why must she wear it?

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What is the purpose of Lenina’s Malthusian belt? Why must she wear it?

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Lenina’s Malthusian belt contains a plentiful supply of contraceptives. Since she is a freemartin, she is capable of becoming pregnant, which would be the ultimate shame and disgrace.

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Soma is a constantly available drug, which is euphoric, narcotic, and pleasantly hallucinogenic. People use it in their free time or in moments of stress to supply dream trips and to keep them happy always.

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Why is Fanny worried about Lenina’s dating habits?

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Why is Fanny worried about Lenina’s dating habits?

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Fanny tells Lenina that she has been seeing Henry Foster exclusively for too long. She is even more shocked when Lenina shows interest in Bernard Marx. She advises Lenina to get out and sleep with more men

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What does Controller Mustapha Mond talk about that shocks the students?

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What does Controller Mustapha Mond talk about that shocks the students?

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Mond makes numerous references to words like mother, father, nursing babies, families, and all words that have become smutty.

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What other name is Our Ford known by? When is this name used?

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What other name is Our Ford known by? When is this name used?

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Our Ford was also known as Our Freud when psychological matters were being discussed.

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What has been advised for Fanny Crowne to relieve her depression?

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What has been advised for Fanny Crowne to relieve her depression?

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Fanny has been advised to have a Pregnancy Substitute for three months. It should keep her healthy for three or four years.

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Why is Bernard Marx upset with Henry Foster’s talk?

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Why is Bernard Marx upset with Henry Foster’s talk?

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Henry’s locker room talk about women, the feelies, and sexual activity—and his specific references to Lenina—upset Bernard.

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Even though he is an Alpha-Plus, Bernard is shorter and more slightly built, not normal. He also enjoys being alone. Rumor says he had too much alcohol added to his blood surrogate when he was bottled.

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Who is the stranger who appears and startles the Director?

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Who is the stranger who appears and startles the Director?

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The stranger is Mustapha Mond, the Resident Controller for Western Europe. He is one of ten Controllers for the entire world.

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What are the only new games the Controllers now approve? Why?

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What are the only new games the Controllers now approve? Why?

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Any new games must use more equipment than any other games that exist. People must consume manufactured goods.

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Whose suggestions are incorporated into the children’s minds?

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Whose suggestions are incorporated into the children’s minds?

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The Suggestions from the State are the ones that are instilled into all young minds.

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The Director says that wordless conditioning is crude and wholesale. What reasons does he give for this?

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The Director says that wordless conditioning is crude and wholesale. What reasons does he give for this?

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The Director says that wordless conditioning cannot make finer distinctions or instill complex behavior.

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How often is each hypnopaedic lesson repeated to be successful?

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How often is each hypnopaedic lesson repeated to be successful?

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Each lesson is repeated 120 times, three times a week, for 30 months.

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When was hypnopaedia first used successfully?

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When was hypnopaedia first used successfully?

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Hypnopaedia was first used successfully in A.F. 214, or about 2130 in contemporary time.

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 Why were early sleep-teaching experiments abandoned?

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 Why were early sleep-teaching experiments abandoned?

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Sleep-teaching was abandoned because children could memorize facts that way but could not relate them as knowledge. They could only repeat by rote memory.

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 How is Reuben Rabinovitch able to repeat the G. B. Shawlecture?

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 How is Reuben Rabinovitch able to repeat the G. B. Shawlecture?

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A radio was accidentally left on in Reuben’s room while he slept. The next morning he was able to repeat Shaw’s speech word for word.

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Words like mother, father, born, parents, and any intimate family relationship words have become the “dirty words” in this New World.

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Why must the lower groups be conditioned to go to the country?

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Why must the lower groups be conditioned to go to the country?

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The lower groups are the larger percentage of the population and must be conditioned to go to the country to consume transportation and sports equipment.

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What is the first conditioning mechanism used? The second?

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What is the first conditioning mechanism used? The second?

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When the babies first touch the roses and books, alarm bells, sirens, and horrible noises scare them. Then the floor under them is electrified.

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What is the age and social group of the infants being conditioned?

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What is the age and social group of the infants being conditioned?

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The infants are eight-month-old, identical Delta Bokanovsky Group babies.

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What is hypnopaedia and how is Reuben involved with this?

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What is hypnopaedia and how is Reuben involved with this?

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Reuben fell asleep by the radio one night and woke up the next morning speaking English when he really grew up speaking Polish, and his parents were rather concerned about this. Hypnopaedia is a process by which information is obtained through listening in one's sleep as if by hypnosis.

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Reuben is a child who was born of Polish-speaking parents. The idea of "parents" is an awkward word for most of the people from the World State.

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What is so wrong about sexual reproduction in the World State?

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What is so wrong about sexual reproduction in the World State?

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In the World State, sexual reproduction is considered to be dirty and pornographic and is looked down upon. There are no such thing as "parents."

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Why does the World State not agree with what nature has to offer?

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Why does the World State not agree with what nature has to offer?

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The World State believes nature is too "free" and will corrupt the minds of their creations. This is the same way with the countryside and the World State as well.

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How are the young babies trained to not like books/reading?

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How are the young babies trained to not like books/reading?

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As the young infants crawl towards the books and flowers, they receive a small electric shock to help prevent them from liking books. This process in continually repeated until the babies do not want to come near books.

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How is hypnopaedia used in the Hatchery?

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How is hypnopaedia used in the Hatchery?

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It is used to teach children morals while they are asleep.

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Why do the students blush when the Director of the Hatchery mentions parents?

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Why do the students blush when the Director of the Hatchery mentions parents?

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The outdated mode of sexual reproduction is now considered taboo.

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Why are the lower castes conditioned to hate the countryside?

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Why are the lower castes conditioned to hate the countryside?

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Because nature is free and they are meant to consume goods

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Why is it important for these children to develop a hatred of books?

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Why is it important for these children to develop a hatred of books?

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Because lower castes cannot waste time on things that could decondition them

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What happens to the Delta babies when they initially crawl toward books and flowers?

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What happens to the Delta babies when they initially crawl toward books and flowers?

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They receive an electric shock so that they will not desire such things.

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What is Lenina doing when the students, D.H.C. and Mr. Foster see her in the Embryo store room?

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What is Lenina doing when the students, D.H.C. and Mr. Foster see her in the Embryo store room?

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She is giving the embryos sleeping sickness and typhoid immunization shots.

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One of the processes completed in the Embryo Store room is_______________.

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One of the processes completed in the Embryo Store room is_______________.

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~ The sex of the embryo is determined
~The embryo is given the correct amount of nutrients and oxygen needed for its caste.
~The embryos are conditioned for the job they will eventually preform.

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Why do we think that Mr. Foster is an Alpha?

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Why do we think that Mr. Foster is an Alpha?

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~  He is working on increasing the number of buds produced by eggs during the Bokanovsky Process.
~ The D.H.C. knows him by name.

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The Bokanovsky Process produces large amounts of identical twins. What reason does the D.H.C. give to justify the usefulness of this process?

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The Bokanovsky Process produces large amounts of identical twins. What reason does the D.H.C. give to justify the usefulness of this process?

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It produces a more stable society.

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The Bokanovsky Process makes a single egg ______________.

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The Bokanovsky Process makes a single egg ______________.

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Produce up to a maximum of 96 buds.

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Which castes are put through the Bokanovsky Process?

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Which castes are put through the Bokanovsky Process?

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Gammas, Deltas, and Epsilons

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The Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning

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Who is in charge of the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Center?

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Who is in charge of the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Center?

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The Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning

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632 AF

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This chapter emphasizes several themes, this is one of them.

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This chapter emphasizes several themes, this is one of them.

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The use of predestination produces a stable and happier society.

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What is the purpose of artificial treatments used on embryos while they are incubated?

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What is the purpose of artificial treatments used on embryos while they are incubated?

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To engineer individuals to enjoy and accept their destiny

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Community, Identity, and Stability

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 What is the process by which an egg is shocked so that it becomes multiple identical embryos?

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 What is the process by which an egg is shocked so that it becomes multiple identical embryos?

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The Bokanovsky Process

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What is the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre?

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What is the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre?

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A place where humans are created and incubated

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What does “A.F.” stand for in the calendar that the World State uses?

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What does “A.F.” stand for in the calendar that the World State uses?

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After Ford

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Female fetuses are sterilized

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Alpha and Beta continue to explain the processes of the plant to the boys.

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Alpha and Beta continue to explain the processes of the plant to the boys.

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The embryos travel on a conveyor belt in their bottles for 267 days, the gestation time period for a human fetus. On the last day, they are “decanted,” or born.

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DONT DO BOKANOVSKY BECAUSE  it can weaken the embryos. Podsnap’s Technique, which speeds up the ripening process of eggs within a single ovary. With this method, hundreds of related individuals can be produced from the ova and sperm of the same man and woman within two years. The average production rate using Podsnap’s Technique is 11,000 brothers and sisters in 150 batches of identical twins. Called over by the Director, Mr. Henry Foster, an employee at the plant, tells the attentive students that the record for this particular factory is over 16,000 siblings.

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Bokanovsky Process- involves shocking an egg so that it divides to form up to 96 identical embryos, when then develop into 96 identical human beings.

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~Alpha ~Beta ~Gamma ~Delta ~Epsilon

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@ Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre