REVIEW

 So we need to review a little for tomorrow's test.

STUDY GUIDE:

 

1)    Be able to outline the Plot

2)    Know the importance of the following people:

Bernard Marx

John

Linda

Lenina

D.H.C. (Tomakin)

Mustapha Mond

Helmholtz Watson

Henry Foster

Fanny Crowne

Pope’

 

3)    Discuss BRAVE NEW WORLD as a 3-part structure

 

 

4) Give examples of the following themes:

The Meaning of Freedom

Individual vs. Society

The Meaning of Power

 

5)    Discuss five ways people are controlled in this society

 

6)    Discuss the title and how its meaning changes throughout the course of the novel

 

7)    Does this novel contain any elements of hope?  Why or why not?

 

8)    Why is Shakespeare used so often?

 

9)    For a world that lacks history and literature there are many, many allusions to both (perhaps Huxley means something by this): list at least three literary and three historical and discuss their meanings.

 

10) Who is FORD?  Why is he an important Symbol of this society?

 

11) Discuss the why everyone is similar.

 

12) List two symbols other than FORD.

 

13) List three ironies.

 

14)Discuss death in this novel and the deaths of the following:

 

John

Linda

The average person in this society.

 

15)Discuss the “Bokanovsky Process”.

 

16)Is Mustapha Mond really powerful or is he controlled by society as much as anyone else?