3. The Hospital for the Dying
*death-conditioning'*:
air hearses and the hospital room:
soma and the dying:
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ACTIVITY SHEET 15 — Comprehending Satire
Satire is a literary technique that allows a writer to ridicule the faults of society or individuals.
While satires are often humorous, they are not designed solely to amuse readers. Rather, their
purpose is to correct, through laughter, the shortcomings that they describe.
Explain what each of the following scenes satirizes.
1. The solidarity meeting
the sign of the T:
the blessed soma:
the solidarity hymns:
2. Thefeelies
the movie's title:
the movie's plot:
the sensory and tactile sensations:
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9. King Lear
10. Pascal
11. Freud
12. fliver
13. liberalism
14. Malthus
15. Eton
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ACTIVITY SHEET 14 — Researching Allusions
Allusions are references to well-known people, places, events, or objects, such as the Bible, the
works of the Greeks and Romans, and Shakespeare. Authors use allusions to help "telegraph"
complex ideas to their readers more quickly and simply.
Identify each of the following allusions from the novel. Use a dictionary or encyclopedia for help.
1. the title, "brave new world"
2. Aryan
3. George Bernard Shaw
4. Ford
5. Trotsky
6. Marx
7. Odysseus
8. Job
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ACTIVITY SHEET 8 — Appreciating Irony
Irony is a contrast between what is said and what is meant, or between what is expected and what
actually happens. There can be a contradiction between what a character thinks and what the reader
knows is true, or an event can contradict the reader's expectations. Aldous Huxley uses irony in
Brave New World to help create his satire.
Explain how each of the following excerpts from the novel is ironic.
1. It's real morocco-surrogate.
2. Making ninety-six human beings grow where only one grew before. Progress.
3. "O brave new world ..." By some malice of his memory the Savage found himself
repeating Miranda's words. "O brave new world that has such people in it"
4. He picked up his pen again, and under the words "Not to be published" drew a second
line, thicker and blacker than the first; then sighed. "What fun it would be," he thought,
"if one didn't have to think about happiness!"
5. Mr. Savage
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