She explains that her job is to immunize the fetuses destined for the tropics with vaccinations for typhoid and sleeping sickness. Henry wants to show the students the conditioning of Alpha Plus Intellectual fetuses, but the Director, looking at his watch, announces that the time is ten to three. He decides there is not enough time to see the Alpha Plus conditioning; he wants to make sure the students get to the Nurseries before the children there have awakened from their naps.
The first chapter reads like a list of stunning scientific achievements: human cloning, rapid maturation, and prenatal conditioning.
However, the satirical tone of the chapter makes it clear that this technology-based society is not a utopia, but the exact opposite. The almost religious regard in which the World State holds technology is apparent from the start. Other satirical hints of a warped religion are scattered throughout the text.
The Predestinators, for example, are a farcical secular manifestation of the Calvinist religious belief that God predestines individuals for heaven or hell before birth. In fact it becomes one of the pillars of stability for the totalitarian World State. Moreover, conditioning makes them virtually incapable of performing any other function than that to which they are assigned.
The satirical tone of the text makes it clear that, though social stability may sound like an admirable goal, it can be used for the wrong reasons toward the wrong ends.
One theme emphasized repeatedly in this first chapter is the similarity between the production of humans in the Hatchery and the production of consumer goods on an assembly line.
Everything about human reproduction is technologically managed to maximize efficiency and profit. A deity is a god. Mustapha Mond : Mustapha Mond basically has a stereotypical famous leader name. The fictional Mustafa's last name, Mond , means "world" in French. Bokanovsky's process helps create social stability because you know that all of the humans from the eggs will look exactly alike so you already know what to expect.
What do you think a "freemartin" is? A " freemartin" is a woman who has been made sterile by exposure to male hormones during the fetal development. What two objects are the babies being conditioned to dislike?
Books and Flowers. Why does the State condition the masses to dislike the country? They do not consume any goods if they simply enjoy natural pleasures in the country. The Brave New World society is based on a caste system. Conditioning happens next--for example some embryos are exposed to cold to condition them for heat. Worker embryos can be matured in as few as six years. The Director glances at him nervously. Ford is the perfect "god" for World State society because, in developing his Ford Motor Company, he invented mass production by means of the assembly line and the specialization of workers, each of whom has one single, specific job.
Why are Epsilons happy being the lowest caste? What are Freemartins what symbol are they given? How is Bernard different from other Alphas? What does Ending is better than mending mean in Brave New World? What is the purpose of the social predestination room? What does it mean to predestined embryos? Why does the hatchery purposely keep? What happens in the bottling room?
What is the point of conditioning? What are the babies being conditioned to hate? Why do they want babies to hate books and flowers? What is the purpose of conditioning the Delta babies to be afraid of books?
Why does Helmholtz feel lonely? Expert Answers Helmholtz Watson is a professor and a writer. The process can be repeated several times, though the maximum number of viable embryos possible is 96, with 72 being a "good average". The process is not applied to embryos of the Alpha and Beta classes of humans.
It is reserved for the Gamma, Delta, and Epsilon classes. But a bokanovskified egg will bud, will proliferate, will divide. From eight to ninety-six buds, and every bud will grow into a perfectly formed embryo, and every embryo into a full-sized adult. Making ninety-six human beings grow where only one grew before.
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