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Respond to the following questions as you read the novel. In your responses, use examples from the novel. The statements do not occur in any special order. Cite the chapters and pages from the novel when responding to the questions. After you have responded to all the questions, post your answers to turnitin.com

1.People should get rid of old things because they inhibit progress.

2.To get social stability, it is worth giving up great tragedies.

3.To be happy, a person must be ignorant of strong passions

4.It’s good to have a drug like soma to take when life becomes unbearable.

5.Happiness occurs when people can get what they want without much trouble.

6.To be happy, you must sacrifice high art.

7.Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comarison with the overcompensations for misery.

8.The reason people prefer conflict is that instability is more attractive than stability.

9.Being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against misfortune, none of the picturesnqueness of a struggle with temptation, or a fatal overthrow of passion by doubt.

10.If robots had not been invented, Bokanovsky twins would be a good idea to staff factories that do repetitive work.

11.Doing menial jobs is not degrading if the person doing the job enjoys it.

12.Each one of us goes through life in an invisible bottle that is defined by our heredity and environment.

13.It is impossible that a society made up of intellectuals actually could succeed.

14.Too much leisure time leads to discontent and law-breaking.

15.It would be sheer cruelty to inflict people with too much leisure.

16.Every change is a menace to stability and happiness

17.Science is dangerous; we have to keep it carefully chained and muzzled.

18. Scientific progress can be dangerous to a society.

19. Happiness is the ultimate goal.

20.The government should have no control over new and powerful technologies.

21.The Brave New World is not an impossibility; it is only an extreme (but logically developed) version of our society’s economic values where happiness is defined as the ability to satisfy needed and success is equated with money.

22.People who are truly happy are people who avoid facing the truth about their own situations. Are deluding themselves.

23.Happiness is the immediate gratification of a person’s desire for food, sex, drugs, nice clothes and other consumer items.

24.The people in Brave New World makes its citizens so happy and superficially fulfilled that they don’t care about personal freedom.

25.Religion isn’t needed when people are happy.

26.The conflict between John’s desire for love and Lenina’s desire for sex illustrates the profound difference in values between the World Stae tnd the humanity represented in Shakespeare’s works.

27.In any nation, it is religion, not the government, that controls society.

28.Evil’s an un reality if you take a couple of grammes of soma.