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| The Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning |
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| What is Bokanovsky's Process? |
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| The process of creating babies in the novel. One egg can equal up to 96 identical embryos. |
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| Why is Bokanovsky's Process one of the major instruments of social stability? |
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| With the process, they can control the population. Because of it, there is no racism, no hatred, everyone is identical. |
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| What is the point of conditioning? |
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| To make everyone enjoy their inescapable destiny. |
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| Why are the babies being conditioned to hate books and flowers? |
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| Lower castes don't need to educate themselves through books. They used to condition them to love flowers and it did not work. |
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| How is the conditioning reinforced? |
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| They are conditioned to dislike books by turning on deafening sirens and alarms. They are conditioned to dislike flowers by shocking them. |
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| What is the name of the deity in this world? |
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| Why is "mother" such an obscene word? |
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| Because nobody knows what a mother is in this society, nobody has one. Mothers create too much sentiment (maudlin). |
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| How is Bernard Marx different from his associates? |
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| He spends his time alone, he doesn't like obstacle golf and he's also smaller and weaker than most. He see's women as more than a piece of meat and shows emotion toward them. |
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| Why does Lenina want to go out with Bernard? |
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| She says he is sweet and an Alpha plus. He's also different and she likes that. |
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| A hallucinant drug that everyone in the society takes to take a mental holiday. It is called the "perfect drug" and is socially acceptable. |
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