- They are exposed to the books and flowers at first, and they are allowed to crawl over to them, but right as they begin to touch them, alarms being to sound and a shock is sent through the floor. Therefore, they are conditioned to hate the flowers and books. The Deltas are exposed to this treatment because they do not want people of a lower caste wasting their time on books. The reason for making them afraid of roses is because previously they were conditioned to love flowers so that they would want to explore the country and transport would increase; this happened, however this is all that they did, so factories began to loose money.
2. What is a State Conditioning Center? Does it remind you of anything from Plato's Republic?
-State Conditioning Centers were the way in which children were raised, instead of by their mother and father. When they went to sleep, they were forced to listen to things (tape recorded voices on repeat) so that they could learn. This is similar to the cave in Plato's Republic because in the cave people learned by the shapes on the walls that were created by puppeteers, rather than learning from their parents like most children did.
3. What is hypnopaedia? Why wasn't is used for science? What was it uesd for? Does it remind you of anything from Plato's Republic?
-Hypnopaedia was the principle of sleep teaching. It wasn't used for science because it didn't enable the people understand what was going on. They were able to repeat the sentences that they heard, however if they were asked a question about what they heard, they would not be able to answer it. It says, "you can't learn a science unless you know what it's all about." (26)
4. How does the caste system work in the World State? What are the similarities and differences between this and the Hindu Caste system?
- In the World State, people who are in the different castes wear different colors. Everyone in the Gammas wear green, and the Deltas wear khaki. Epsilons wear black, and Alphas wear grey. They are brainwashed into believing that people in other castes are different than them, which is similar to the Hindu Caste system. However in this caste system, they think negatively of the other castes, so they must not get any reward in the end for fulfilling one's duties, because they never are nice to the other castes.
5. What does the Director mean when he says, "not so much like drops of water... rather, drops of liquid sealing wax."?
- I have no idea, so here is my guess. Drops of water can evaporate, and they disappear after time; however wax is sort of a permanent thing. So therefore he is trying to say that when these things are drilled in the kids mind, they are like wax because they stay there forever, like wax does, instead of like water.
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