English 11 Honors

The quiz over chapters 1-3 on Brave New World this Thursday (Friday for period 1) is gonna be hard, so be sure to read carefully, bring your book to class, and ask good questions!

Example Question:

1. “But wordless conditioning is crude and wholesale; cannot bring home the finer distinctions, cannot inculcate the more complex courses of behaviour. For that there must be words, but words without reason. In brief, hypnopaedia” (Huxley 28).

What are some typical American behaviors that have resulted from our culture’s “hypnopaedic” training? Explain your examples (both of the behaviors and the hypnopaedia in action).