He is comparing his heart to an empty nest because he feels alone and depressed, sort of like a feeling of dreary emptiness when viewing a picture of an empty nest.
1.a) It would be A
1.b) I would say B
<em>Hope that helped!!</em>
Brave New World<span> warns of the dangers of giving the state control over new and powerful technologies. One illustration of this theme is the rigid control of reproduction through technological and medical intervention, including the surgical removal of ovaries, the Bokanovsky Process, and hypnopaedic conditioning. Another is the creation of complicated entertainment machines that generate both harmless leisure and the high levels of consumption and production that are the basis of the World State’s stability. Soma is a third example of the kind of medical, biological, and psychological technologies that </span>Brave New World<span> criticizes most sharply.</span>
