Calvin+Stopes+and+His+Sixteen+Sexophonists

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 * Describes the casual integration of soma into social behavior and norm.
 * Describes a Society where nature is obscured by technology and generally shunned and avoided.
 * Describes a euphoric experience of music, dance, and drugs.
 * Reiterates recurring themes and concepts such as being "bottled," synthetic music/objects, "soma -holiday," and sex.
 * Expresses a lack of individuality.
 * Expresses a lack of moral integrity and restraint.
 * emphasizes a sex and pleasure oriented society, foreshadowing potential problems that could arise later in the story.
 * illustrates the simple and shallow lives the denizens of this Brave new World inhabit
 * To display a standard segment of their recreational lives.
 * Emphasize their soma -reliant reality.
 * emphasize the mechanized routine/behavior of each "individual.
 * Food --> soma --> dance --> soma --> sex
 * Display their open embrace/love/want of being ignorant, of being "bottled."
 * Emphasize that even when Lenina is heavily drugged, she remembers her hypnopedia lessons.
 * Distinct and Vivid Language
 * Repeated mention of <span class="GINGER_SOFATWARE_correct">soma
 * <span class="GINGER_SOFATWARE_correct">long passages of narration heavily alluding/incorporating musical and sexual language
 * <span class="GINGER_SOFATWARE_correct">very stimulating language in concern to the five senses
 * Henry and Lenina are often referred <span class="GINGER_SOFATWARE_correct">to as being just "another number."
 * Incorporation of music and rhythmic language
 * Little dialogue between Henry and Lenina - little personality/no personal interaction between the two