Brave New World Questions

I. Answer the following questions based on the novel by Aldous Huxley.

  1.  The relevance of chapters 1, 2 and 3 is that in these chapters the author is describing the place, situation, and all the information that we need to understand what is happening, like the different types of humans (alpha, beta, gammas and epsilon), and how they are created, making us introduce and understand the plot of the book.

  2.  This chapters are of a descriptive kind, because in each chapter describe different things. In the first chapter, provides an introduction to the world from where man was born, explaining the different types of human and the process of their creation; in the second chapter, describes children delta fitness, by showing to students how they makes them hate and fear for certain things; and in the third chapter, is shown to students as children are distracted, and also tells how modern civilization began to destroy the past.

  3.  The one of the most important facts is that is a new way of creating humans. The second more important fact is that they are no more parents. The third fact is that betas don´t like flowers and books. The fourth, and final fact, is that a human can change our way to think.

II. Describe the context of the following quotes: Who said that? When? Why? To whom?

   A)     “They’ll be safe from books and botany all their lives”: (Second Chapter) The director says this to the students located in the nursery, explaining how they make delta babies to hate and fear flowers and books.

   B)      “But in Epsilons…we don’t need human intelligence”:  (First Chapter) Henry Foster says this to the students, explaining the different types of humans.

   C)      “Family, monogamy, romance. Everywhere exclusiveness, everywhere a focusing on interest, a narrow channel of impulse and energy”: (Third Chapter) The director says this, and refers to the interests of the different human types and the different way of thinking.