Thursday, April 16, 2009

Brave New World Pre-Reading Questions

Post the 8 questions you generated from the PowerPoint. Include your caste name at the top of the comment.

Due by 11:59 pm, Monday, April 20.

3 comments:

  1. DELTA
    Who was a biologist known for applying Darwin's ideas?
    What happened to Huxley as a teenager that stopped his dream of becoming a doctor?
    When did he graduate Oxford?
    Where did he die?

    Why did he decide to be a poet?
    Why did he start using drugs?
    How did the totalarian government control society?
    How did he influence people?

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  2. Alpha
    1. Who was ford? The man who created the ideolgical utopain society. Also there god.
    2. What controls the society? A dictator, or controler.
    3. When did this event occur? 2580.
    4. Where did the brave new world occcur? London.
    5. Why did they sterilised woman? So there could be no naturally made childeren, and to make sex a social acceptable thing.
    6. Why was freedom abolished? To manipulate employment and they think to much if they are free.
    7. How are people brainwashed? People are bred with the system.
    8. How do people think similar? The drug makes people think similar, and distracted from serious thought.

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  3. Epsilon
    1. Who decided which caste people were placed into?
    2. What inspired Huxley to use the caste system in his book?
    3. When was the caste system first use?
    4. Where does this book take place?
    5. Why was the caste system abolished?
    6. Why did Huxley use Greek letters to label the different castes?
    7. How was everyone considered "Happy" if they were being put into castes?
    8. How were babies actually made? (in the book)

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