In class today, you will be working in small groups and discussing the following questions. You will be expected to (with most questions) to find textual examples and each member needs to track within their own notes.
1. What are the characteristics of your group's "Utopia"? Think of an ideal
life. Where would it be? What would they be allowed
to do? What would they have to do? Would they have
any limitations?
2. What do you think are the three
defining characteristics of the future described in
Brave New World?
3. So far has the story in the book have any similarities to your group's ideal worlds discussed?
4. Describe the differences between Lenina and
Bernard.
5. What is your opinion of Bernard so far?
6. What is your opinion of Lenina?
7. In his descriptions of Indian life on the New Mexican
Reservation, what do you think Huxley is trying to
tell the reader about the local lifestyle?
8. Take two questions from the Marxist School of Theory and two from the Feminist School of Theory and ask of the first 9 chapters of BNW.
9. List 4 statements of analytical truths that you have concluded upon in your first 10 chapters of BNW.
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