Sources

Brave New World

3 Anthropological Sources in journal

Websites

Scientific

1. http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2010/02/13/anti-aging-talk-getting-old-or-just-getting-started/
2. http://www.joe.org/joe/2001december/iw2.php
3. http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=the-serious-search-for-an-2002-08

Psychological

1. http://www.goodhousekeeping.com/beauty/anti-aging/
2. http://agingus.com/aging-in-a-youth-focused-society/
3. http://www.transgenerational.org/aging/perceptions.htm

Historical

1. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5868712/ns/health-aging/t/ageism-america/
2. http://gerontologist.oxfordjournals.org/content/11/3_Part_1/181.abstract
3. http://womensenews.org/story/aging/060531/alarmist-demography-stalks-women-over-60

Quotes

p. 110 Ch. 7

“'What's the matter with him?' whispered Lenina. Her eyes were wide with horror and amazement.
'He's old, that's all,' Bernard answered as carelessly as he could...
'Old?' she repeated. But the Director's old; lots of people are old; they're not like that. 'That's because we don't allow them to be like that.'”

p. 110 Ch. 7

“But Lenina was not listening. She was watching the old man...
'But it's terrible,' Lenina whispered. 'It's awful. We ought not to have come here.'”



p.118 and 119 Ch. 7

“Lenina noticed with disgust that two of the front teeth were missing. And the colour of the ones that remained ... She shuddered. It was worse than the old man. So fat. And all the lines in her face, the flabbiness, the wrinkles. And the sagging cheeks, with those purplish blotches. And the red veins on her nose, the bloodshot eyes. And that neck--that neck; and the blanket she wore over her head--ragged and filthy. And under the brown sack-shaped tunic those enormous breasts, the bulge of the stomach, the hips. Oh, much worse than the old man, much worse!”

p. 138 Ch. 8

“Bernard looked, and then quickly, with a little shudder, averted his eyes. His conditioning had made him not so much pitiful as profoundly squeamish. The mere suggestion of illness or wounds was to him not only horrifying, but even repulsive and rather disgusting. Like dirt, or deformity, or old age. Hastily he changed the subject.”

p. 153 Ch. 11

“Finally--and this was by far the strongest reason for people's not wanting to see poor Linda--there was her appearance. Fat; having lost her youth; with bad teeth, and a blotched complexion, and that figure (Ford!)--you simply couldn't look at her without feeling sick, yes, positively sick. So the best people were quite determined not to see Linda.”