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        <title><![CDATA[Ward 81 is where anyone who is going to die is sent to die in happy,...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Ward 81 is where anyone who is going to die is sent to die in happy, blissful peace.  As their entire society is based on entertainment and happiness at its utmost pleasure, the people who go to ward 81 to die in the same style.  While the people are there, they are kept constantly hopped up on drugs, entertained with television, and pleased with pleasant smells and sensory experiences.  As one worker in the ward explains,

"We try to creat...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[In "Brave New World," what is ward 81 like?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In "Brave New World," what is ward 81 like?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 20:11:02 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I think we do have forms of the solidarity service from BNW, but not in...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I think we do have forms of the solidarity service from BNW, but not in formal settings.  The problem with the solidarity service is that it brings people together using a false bond.  Aside from taking Soma and experiencing base physical pleasure, the members of the solidarity group don't actually do anything with one another.  They do not converse, so they have no real bond.  I used to see this all the time at my own social gatherings in...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 28 Nov 2009 05:46:57 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I think we still value critical thought.  I watch my students in class...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I think we still value critical thought.  I watch my students in class when one of their classmates give a particularly insightful answer, and there is always appreciation in their eyes and in their comments.  However, I think we are less and less equipped to exercise critical thought, due in part to the trend of "effortless entertainment" in our society.  Fewer and fewer of my students read for recreation as the years go by,  and fewer...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 28 Nov 2009 05:41:52 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[A flat character is a character that only exhibits one "side" to his or...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/brave-new-world/q-and-a/using-quotes-from-book-how-can-you-describe-john-105533</link>
        <description><![CDATA[A flat character is a character that only exhibits one "side" to his or her personality.  Some people also describe a flat character as only having one or two personality traits, or refer to a flat character as "one dimensional".  You can address the following to find out how John is a flat character:
Goals/Desires.  What does John want most out of life?  If you can prove that he only wants one thing or similar things throughout the text,...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 28 Nov 2009 05:36:31 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The people outside the reservation have been conditioned from a young...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The people outside the reservation have been conditioned from a young age by science, which has taken the place of conventional parenting.  However, someone who does have a parent can certainly be conditioned.  Ask yourself, "How does Linda's influence (her words, actions, life) form John's thoughts about the world?  How do Linda and her life have a hand in forming his fears, hopes, likes, and dislikes?  You can also ask yourself about...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 28 Nov 2009 05:29:30 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In "Brave New World," by Aldous Huxley, the dead are cremated.  We are...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In "Brave New World," by Aldous Huxley, the dead are cremated.  We are told this at the beginning of Chapter 5.  Henry and Lenina are out flying in the night when she notices the smoke stacks of the Slough Crematorium.
She asks him why they have balcony-like structures around them.  He tells her that they are meant for recovering phosphorous from the dead bodies.  Each adult body has around 1.5 kg of phosphorous in it and the state would...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:12:41 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I want to know what is done with the dead in the book "Brave New World". ]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I want to know what is done with the dead in the book "Brave New World". ]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:56:52 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Bernard and Lenina, at the beginning of the book, seem to be polar...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Bernard and Lenina, at the beginning of the book, seem to be polar opposites in most things.  Bernard is fronting himself as anti-social, a bit of a loner, and as having a disgust and repugnance for all of the group games, mindlessness, and empty relationships that are in his society.  Lenina on the other hand is a social butterfly who loves group activities, being with different people all of the time, and enjoys the full benefits of the...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:06:47 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In "Brave New World" what is the difference in the way that Bernard and...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In "Brave New World" what is the difference in the way that Bernard and Lenina look at the warm blue sky when they reach the roof?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:55:40 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[This is, of course, an opinion question and my opinion is that our...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[This is, of course, an opinion question and my opinion is that our society is not moving towards Huxley's distopian vision in any significant way.
When I think about the themes of this novel, the only thing I really see happening is that many of us do like to use technology and such to keep us happy.  But even then, I'm not sure how much people use those to substitute for human relationships.  Some people of course use drugs, but not to the...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 14:48:45 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[How is Brave New World prophetic of our society?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[How is Brave New World prophetic of our society?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 14:18:37 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In "Brave New World," technology has completely reshaped the world that...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/brave-new-world/q-and-a/effect-that-technology-have-our-every-day-life-112515</link>
        <description><![CDATA[In "Brave New World," technology has completely reshaped the world that we live in, and even the idea of human beings as we know it today.  Their technology allows them to design and produce human beings en masse; their society has used this to create  what they believe to be a perfectly productive, peaceful, and functioning society.  Unfortunately, in that society, no one truly thinks, chooses for themselves on any significant scale, or...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 3 Nov 2009 10:34:27 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What is the effect that technology has on our every day life and how...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/brave-new-world/q-and-a/effect-that-technology-have-our-every-day-life-112515</link>
        <description><![CDATA[What is the effect that technology has on our every day life and how does this compare to "Brave New World"?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 3 Nov 2009 10:07:44 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[#1.  Birth control as a means of population control is fascist.  The...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[#1.  Birth control as a means of population control is fascist.  The world state mandates birth control by the elite and makes the lower castes infertile.  This is a satire of Communist China's ridiculous birth control policy which is a means to destroy the family.
#2.  Technology cannot replace books, freedom of choice, and knowledge of the past.  The children of the Brave New World are conditioned to hate books and nature.  This makes...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 1 Nov 2009 13:23:53 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Here are some themes that Huxley is presenting in the novel:
Free will...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Here are some themes that Huxley is presenting in the novel:
Free will versus enslavement.  Hardly anyone in the society has any choices because they're all pretty much bred to be what they're supposed to be.  John the Savage kills himself and by doing so at least uses free will.
Sex.  The book explores the effects of people being able to have casual sex and argues that it robs people of intimacy.
The effects of knowledge and ignorance. ...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 1 Nov 2009 13:19:08 PST</pubDate>
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Brave New World is a novel of ideas. Give 3 examples of diffrent ways...]]></title>
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Brave New World is a novel of ideas. Give 3 examples of diffrent ways huxley presents ideas and what this does to the plot and characters.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 1 Nov 2009 13:13:25 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In "Brave New World," all people are bred and conditioned to fulfill a...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In "Brave New World," all people are bred and conditioned to fulfill a particular role in society.  They are given the amount of intelligence and the conditioning they need to be both productive and happy in their assigned caste.
Bernard Marx is an alpha, a member of the highest caste.  For some reason, he is both shorter and thinner than alphas are supposed to be.  He is also emotionally different and does not really like a lot of things...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 07:16:19 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[How does Bernard feel around lower-caste gammas, deltas and epsilons,...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[How does Bernard feel around lower-caste gammas, deltas and epsilons, and why does he feel this way?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:47:58 PST</pubDate>
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 Brave New World Question

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 Brave New World Question

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        <pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 20:41:50 PST</pubDate>
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