Brave New World Book Report

The scene begins at the Central London Hatchery in the year 632 After Ford. A guided tour is taking place, explaining the process of how a human is made. It’s a new age, and humans no longer are created by viviparous reproduction; in Brave New World, humans are made on an assembly line. People in this world are divided up into five social classes- Alphas, Betas, Gammas, Deltas, and Epsilons, ranging from the highest caste to the lowest, respectively. The fetuses are developed in little jars that follow a conveyor belt for their caste. Each caste is exposed to different elements to strengthen or weaken the fetuses within the jars, for example, the lower three castes are deprived of oxygen to keep the individuals of that class smaller and less intelligent of those of the Alpha or Beta classes. After 267 days on the conveyor belt, the babies are decanted from their jars and begin conditioning. The tour moves from the assembly room to the nursery where the babies are conditioned. Using different methods and many repetitions, the workers at the factory train the babies to instinctively like and dislike different things. When the tour enters, they are conditioning baby Deltas to hate books and learning by electrocuting them when they pick up a book. The director of the tour says it is necessary that the three lower castes are conditioned against books so they can not become too intelligent. The tour moves to a room where Beta children are asleep. The director describes a process that all people go through called hypnopaedia, where you are basically brainwashed in your sleep. The young Betas are taught to love their caste and essentially loathe the others. They are conditioned like this for their entire time of growing up in this facility, learning about their caste and what it means to be apart of it. The tour moves on to a garden on the grounds of the facility in chapter three. As disgusting and demoralizing as it is, the scene opens to hundreds of children