Monday, October 17, 2016
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Chapter 1 - Summary\nThe novel opens in the Central London Hatchery and condition Centre. The year is A.F. 632 (632 years subsequently FordÂ). The director of Hatcheries and instruct is giving a radical of students a tour of a factory that produces human beings and conditions them for their predestinate roles in the earth State. He let offs to the boys that human beings no durable produce living offspring. Instead, surgically removed ovaries produce ova that argon fertilized in artificial receptacles and incubated in specially designed bottles.\nThe hatchery ordain each fetus for a particular caste in the World State. The five castes atomic number 18 Alpha, beta, Gamma, Delta, and Epsilon. Gamma, Delta, and Epsilon undergo the Bokanovsky dish out, which involves shocking an orchis so that it divides to form up to ninety-six undistinguishable embryos, which and so develop into ninety-six like human beings. The Alpha and Beta embryos never undergo this dividing process, which arsehole weaken the embryos. The director explains that the Bokanovsky Process facilitates social stability because the clones it produces be predestined to perform identical tasks at identical machines. The clone process is one of the tools the World State uses to implement its command motto: Community, Identity, Stability.\nThe director goes on to describe Podsnaps Technique, which speeds up the ontogenesis process of eggs within a single ovary. With this method, hundreds of associate individuals can be produced from the ova and sperm of the same man and charr within two years. The fair(a) production rate victimization Podsnaps Technique is 11,000 brothers and sisters in cl batches of identical twins. Called over by the director, Mr. enthalpy Foster, an employee at the plant, tells the careful students that the record for this particular factory is over 16,000 siblings.\nThe director and Henry Foster continue to explain the processes of the plant to the boys. After fertilization, the embryos travel...
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