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Brave New World   1)  Who are the different characters? What do you know about them? There is a director also referred to as D.H.C. This director hasn't got a name. There are six nurses ("half a dozen") dressed in a white uniform and eight-month-old babies belonging to a caste called Delta. There is even a Head Nurse (there are capital letters attached to her job / function) therefore she must be important. The babies or "infants" are the objects of an experiment, a training. In this extract, the director is talking to someone. He may be addressing the reader or more probably other doctors or students… How do the nurses behave? Can you guess why? The nurses are really obedient. They follow every order of the Doctor even if it’s horrible. They don’t even think twice and they don’t show any kind of emotion (anger, sadness, joy…). They just obey and nothing more. They probably act like that because they also are clones who were trained ...

Brave New World : Going further

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  A) Browse the web to find: a)  the origin of the phrase "brave new world" b) interesting information about the author (Huxley) c) a definition of the word "dystopia" d) other famous dystopian novels B) Compare these book covers: which one do you prefer to represent this dystopian world? Why?