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Brave New World
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CHAPTERS 1-3
Reading Check
1. What is the World State’s motto?
2. What is closely controlled to produce children of differing castes?
3. What is considered “smut”?
4. Where are children brought up?
5. Which two male figures from the past does Mond conflate?
Short Answer
Answer each question in at least 1 complete sentence. Incorporate details from the text to support your response.
1. What is Bokanovsky’s Process, and what benefit does it offer?
2. What effect does weaving Fanny and Lenina’s conversation, the interaction between Henry Foster and Bernard Marx, and Mustapha Mond’s recounting of history have on the narrative?
Paired Resource
“The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” and “The Ones Who Stay and Fight”
- Two related short stories by Ursula K. Le Guin and N. K. Jemisin examine a perfect society’s moral and ethical costs.
- Both stories examine the moral and ethical costs of social stability and control.
- How do Le Guin, Jemisin, and Huxley rationalize the costs of maintaining a perfect society? Do the ends justify the means in any of the stories? Why or why not?
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