brave new world
The novel opens in the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre. The year is A.F. 632, After Ford. The Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning is giving some students a tour of the factory that produces and conditions human beings from conception through childhood for their predestined roles in the World State. Human beings no longer produce living offspring. Instead, surgically removed ovaries produce ova that are fertilized in artificial receptacles and incubated in specially designed bottles. The Hatchery destines each fetus for a particular caste in the World State. The five castes are Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, and Epsilon. Gamma, Delta, and Epsilon undergo the Bokanovsky process. The process involves shocking an egg into dividing again and again until up to ninety-six identical embryos form. They develop into ninety-six identical human beings. The Alpha and Beta embryos never undergo this process. The Director explains that the Bokanovsky process facilitates social stability because the clones are predestined to perform identical tasks within the same factory. The process enables the World State to enact its central slogan, "Community, Identity, Stability," with greater ease.
The Director relates the story of a child named Reuben with Polish-speaking parents. The students blush at the mention of the word "parent." References to sexual reproduction are now considered pornographic and highly taboo, including words like "mother" and "father." In the World State, people usually only use them for scientific purposes, such as the Director's story about the Polish child. When Bernard says that he must have suffered a terrible shock, the Director comes to himself immediately. He criticizes Bernard for his anti-social behavior and threatens to exile him to Iceland if his impropriety persists. Bernard leaves the office feeling proud of being considered a rebel. Bernard arranges a large party of important people, promising them a chance to meet "the Savage." However, John refuses to leave his room, causing a good deal of humiliation and embarrassment for Bernard. Lenina is disappointed that she cannot see John again to find out why he behaved so strangely after the feelie. The guests proclaim their disgust, and the Arch-Community Songster warns Bernard to mend his ways. John introduces Lenina and Bernard to his mother, Linda. Her missing teeth and overweight figure disgust Lenina. Linda explains that something went wrong with her contraceptives. She could not get an abortion on the Reservation and felt too ashamed to go back to the World State with a baby. Linda explains that she followed all her conditioning and slept with any man she pleased, but some women beat her for taking their men to bed. When Lenina tells Bernard she's accepting his invitation to see the Savage Reservation, Bernard reacts with embarrassment. His suggestion that they discuss it privately confuses Lenina. She saunters off to meet Henry. Bernard feels terrible because Lenina behaved like a healthy, normal woman. John declares that he wants God, poetry, real danger, freedom, goodness, and sin. Mustapha tells him that his wishes will lead to unhappiness. John agrees but does not relinquish his wishes. Bernard and Helmholtz say good-bye to John. Bernard apologizes for the scene in Mustapha's office. John asks Mustapha if he could go with them to the islands, but Mustapha refused because he wanted to continue "the experiment." Later, John chooses to seclude himself in an abandoned lighthouse in the wilderness. He grows his own garden and performs rituals of self-punishment to purge himself of the effects of civilization. Bernard feels insecure about his size. The lower castes associate larger size with higher status, so he has trouble getting them to follow his orders. He visits his friend, Helmholtz Watson, a lecturer at the College of Emotional Engineering. Helmholtz possesses the appearance of an Alpha-Plus, but his mental capacity is far beyond what it should be. Bernard goes to get the Director's permission to visit the Reservation. He braces himself for the Director's disapproval of his unusual behavior. When he presents the permit, the Director mentions that he took a trip there with a woman 20 years before. She disappeared there. enables the Hatcheries to speed up the ripening process of the eggs within a single ovary. Therefore, scores of related individuals can be produced with the ova and sperm of the same man and woman within two years. The average production rate is 11,000 brothers and sisters in 150 batches of identical twins, all within two years of the same age. Mr. Henry Foster tells the attentive students that the record for this Centre is over 16,000. When Lenina and Bernard present themselves to the Warden to get his signature on the permit, he launches into a long series of facts about the reservation. Bernard remembers that he left the scent tap on at his apartment. He endures the seemingly endless speech and then hurries to phone Helmholtz to ask him to turn off the tap. Helmholtz informs him that the Director will try to exile him to Iceland. The news crushes and frightens him. Lenina pers
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Approximate Word count = 5075
Approximate Pages = 20 (250 words per page double spaced)
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