Getting Deeper Into the Book

Brave New World opens in the year 2495 at the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Center, a research facility and factory that mass produces and then socially conditions test tube babies. Such a Factory is a fatting place to begin the story of mass produced characters in a techno futuristic dystopia, a world society gone mad for pleasure, order and conformity. The date is A.F 632, A.F. -After Ford- being a notation based on the birth year of Henry Ford, he famous automobile manufacture and assembly line innovator who is worshiped as a God in Huxley's fictional society.

Five genetic castes or classes inhabit this futurist dystopia. In descending order they are named for the first five letters of the Greek alphabet: Alphas, Betas, Gammas, Deltas, and Epsilons. While upper castes are bred for intellectual and managerial occupations, the lower castes, bred with less intelligence, perform manual labor. All individuals are conditioned by electric shock and hypnopaedia (sleep conditioning) to reject or desire what the State dictates.

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Jhon

Jhon is the main character of the story, he is the son of Linda and the director, this character has grown outside the world satate.
All the cultere and mind of this character is based in the plays of Shakespeare’s, whith the plays of Shakespeare he makes most of the quotes

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Dictionary

REFRAIN: To keep oneself from doing, feeling, or indulging in something and especially from following a passing impulse.  
That is if we refrain from blowing ourselves to smithereens in the intervals.
BURGEONED: To send forth new growth.
…; consequently burgeoned again and having budded. (pg:7)
PERITONEUMHAD:  the smooth transparent serous membrane that lines the cavity of the abdomen of a mammal and is folded inward over the abdominal and pelvic viscera.
…! Another flat of peritoneumhad shot up from the depts ready to be slipped… (pg:9)
CREPT:  To move along with the body prone and close to the ground.
…;majestically and forever the conveyors crept forward with their load of future men and women (pg:34)
LURKS:  To lie in wait in a place of concealment especially for an evil purpose.
       Feeling lurks in that interval of time between desire and its consummation. (pg:44)
STUPOR:  A condition of greatly dulled or completely suspended sense or sensibility.
The twilight of his own habitual stupor. (pg:59)
SPROUTING:  To grow, spring up, or come forth as or as if a sprout.
In few seconds that a end of dramatic mushroom sprouting from the green of the park and garden (pg:61)
MAGGOTY: A soft-bodied legless grub that is the larva of a dipterous insect.
The green was maggoty  with fore-shortened with life (pg:62)
KHAKI: Colored cloth made usually of cotton or wool and used especially for military uniforms
Near them a black and khaki army of laborers was busy revitrifying the surface of the great west road (pg:62)
HICCOUGH:  A spasmodic inhalation with closure of the glottis accompanied by a peculiar sound.
Then a hiccough and silence. (pg:90)

SWAGGERS: To conduct oneself in an arrogant or superciliously pompous; especially: to walk with an air of overbearing self-confidence.

For Bernard left the room with a swagger, exulting as he banged the door behind him… (pg: 98)

BRACHYCEPHALIC:  Short-headed or broad-headed with a cephalic index of over 80

The warden was a blond and brachycephalic alpha-minus, short, red, moon-faced…(pg: 101)
SLOBBERINGLY: To let saliva dribble from the mouth.

Ford! to kiss, slobberingly, and smell to horrible…(pg: 119)
CRUMB: A small fragment especially of something baked (as bread)

His purple viscous waist coat the crumbs of a considerable colation (pg:175)

LINGER:  To be slow in parting or in quitting something

Lenina, who had lingered for a moment to look at the moon… (pg:176)

GRIEVANCE: A cause of distress (as an unsatisfactory working condition) felt to afford reason for complaint or resistance.

A secret grievance against the savage, to meditate a campaign…(pg:179).

FOWL: A bird of any kind

…“every fowl of tyrant wing”…(pg:183)
RAKISHLY: In a rakish manner
TILTED: To cover or provide with a tilt.

With a round white cap rakishly tilted over her left ear, stood lenina. (pag: 189)
CLUMSY:  Lacking dexterity, nimbleness, or grace
OAF: A stupid person

As a clumsy oaf scrambles to his feet… (pg:190)

CARTRIDGE: A case or container that holds a substance, device, or material which is difficult, troublesome, or awkward to handle and that usually can be easily changed.

Her white patent cartridge belt and hung it carefully over…(pg:192)
PAPS: Something shaped like a nipple.

For those milk papas that through the window bars… (pg:193)

GIRDLE: Something that encircles or confines.

But to the girdle do the gods inherit (pg: 195)
PEEPED: To utter a feeble shrill sound as of a bird newly hatched.

…; peeped through the crack… (pg:197)
TIPTOE: The position of being balanced on the balls of the feet and toes with the heels raised.

Finally, tiptoed into the room (pg:197)