By: Aldous Huxley Brave New World opens in a technically
advanced future
world. In the beginning of this book, we see the Director of
World
Hatcheries lead the new hatchery students on a tour of a
Conditioning
Center in London where babies are produced in bottles and
pre-sorted to
determine which class level they will be born into. These
class level
range from Alpha-plus, the highest level, to Epsilon-minus,
the lowest.
There are no parents, and babies are conditioned from birth
to learn certain
behaviors. All diseases have been eliminated, and when
people are feeling
down, they just take soma, a wonder drug. Also, people are
conditioned from
birth not to love one person, so there is no marriage and
most people have
many lovers. There is no God; instead, Henry Ford is
worshipped as the god
Ford. Another accomplishment of this society is the
elimination of aging.
Bernard Marx has unorthodox viewpoints and is outcast as
an eccentric. He......
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