A Brave New World Chapter 2 Summary
                       
   In this chapter, the tour lead by D.H.C. is in the Infant Nurseries, Neo-Pavlovian Conditioning Rooms.  The students are shown how they give eight month old Delta's a "lesson"; basically keeping  them from personal knowledge and nature through eclectric shock.  The tour made it's way to the fourteenth floor where they learned about "Elementary Class Consciousness", essentially the Beta children are in a sense brainwashed into believing they are harder working, smarter and overall better than the Epsilons, Gammas, Deltas and Alphas.

I feel as if the goals of  the Central London Hatchery And Conditioning Centre has to do with their belief system that consider Ford their god, basically, because Ford invented the assembly line. I see them trying to follow in Ford's footsteps, but in a more controlling sort of way. For what overall goal, I'm not sure of.

• Vocabulary  Viviparous - bearing or bringing forth living young, as most mammals and some other animals do.  Hypnopædia - learning by hearing while asleep or under hypnosis.  

 

A Brave New World Chapter 1 Summary

                            

    In the first chapter, Aldous Huxley takes us to the Central London Hatchery

And Conditioning Centre, with the World State motto above the door: Community, Identity, Stability.  The Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning is taking his students on a tour of the Centre, in the year of A.F. 632 (632 years “after Ford”), I am not really sure what A.F. 632 means, but I am hoping I find out soon.  He shows them the Fertilizing Room, and explains how humans would no longer produce living offspring; instead they remove ovaries to create ova to produce artificial living beings.  Next, D.H.C. explains “Bokanovsky’s Process”; when the Gamma, Delta and Epsilon embryos would divide from one to eight to ninety-six buds that will grow into perfectly developed human beings. As they are walking, we are introduced to a Mr. Foster (explained to be a “ruddy young man”), he joins the Director on his tour and expresses his knowledge on each process.  Both Mr. Foster and the Director discuss how individuals were produced that were sexually mature at four and full-grown at six, though, a six year old would not be smart enough to do Epsilon work.  Lastly, we are introduced to Lenina, a nurse, who is immunizing fish against the future “man’s disease”.  The chapter ends with Mr. Foster pleading to go to the Decanting Room and D.H.C. giving in.  So far I feel as if this first chapter is the behind the scenes of a World control scheme by multiplying test tube embryos into perfect humans.  The question is, why would anyone want to produce perfect humans by the masses?