Brave New World
Brave New World opens in a technically advanced future world. In the beginning of this book, we see theDirector of World Hatcheries lead the new hatchery students on a tour of a Conditioning Center in London where babies are produced in bottles and pre-sorted to determine which class level they will be born into. These class levels range from Alpha-plus, the highest level, to Epsilon-minus, the lowest. There are no parents, and babies are conditioned from birth to learn certain behaviors. All diseases have been eliminated, and when people are feeling down, they just take soma, a wonder drug. Also, people are conditioned from birth not to love one person, so there is no marriage and most people have many lovers. There is no God; instead, Henry Ford is worshipped as the god Ford. Another accomplishment of this society is the elimination of aging. Bernard Marx has unorthodox viewpoints and is outcast as an eccentric. He likes being alone, but in this society being alone is discouraged. His isolation from society has made him very different from everyone else. His only friend is Helmholtz Wats
on, an accomplished intellect who writes government propaganda. "purify" himself from this awful society. Crowds soon come to see him, among them Lenina, whom he mauls frightened by the new world he sees. The fear and oppression he experiences make him long for his old So Bernard and Lenina go to the Savage Reservation, which is inhabited by Indians. They quickly find people. Mond then explains how society has developed without public knowledge of history or literature.
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Approximate Word count = 751
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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