Brave New World Chapters 3-4 Study Questions
Chapter 3
1. Why is it considered a bad idea in this society to allow people to develop games for which no equipment is needed? Name 2-3 game you have played that require no equipment?
2. What happens on the playground that we would consider morally wrong?
3. Who is Mustapha Mond? What advice does he give the students?
4. What does the extended simile on page 34 “he waved his hand…” mean? What does Huxley accomplish by employing this simile?
5. What does Mustapha Mond have to say about the kind of family life we consider normal?
6. Who are Lenina Crowne and Fanny Crowne? Why does Fanny criticize Lenina?
7. According to the Controller, what is the “primal and ultimate need”? What causes a lack of this?
8. Who is Bernard Marx, and what makes him a “square peg in a round hole”?
9. How does Lenina feel about Bernard? How do the other women regard him?
10. What has Bernard asked Lenina to do?
11. What does the name “Savage Reservation” suggest this place would be like? What is it actually?
12. What is soma? Does it remind you of anything?
13. Why does Huxley have the Controller say, “suffer the little children”?
Chapter 4
14. How does Lenina surprise Bernard? How does she view his reaction?
15. How is Bernard’s “abnormality” rumored to have happened? What does this remind you of?
16. How does Huxley use the Red Rocket to satirize the perfection of the new world?
17. Who is Helmholtz Watson? What do he and Bernard have in common?
18. How does Bernard define the “something inside that was only waiting for you to give it a chance to come out”? Is Bernard right?
