Sunday, November 20, 2011
Brave New World Chapters 1-6 Response
In the book Brave New World, equality is created by the Central London Hatching and Conditioning Centre, where the Bokanovsky and Podsnap Processes that allow the Hatchery to produce thousands of nearly identical human embryos. The embryos are shocked to split apart and form 96 identical embryos in the Bokanovsky process. The embryos travel in bottles along a conveyor belt, where they are conditioned to belong to one of five castes: Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, or Epsilon. Each caste has its own color, so everyone in the Delta caste wears khaki all that time. There is no drive for religion because all the tops of the crosses were chopped off to great T's. The citizens also are not allowed to think alone or even have leisure time for pleasure, they essentially have no rights. Happiness has been forced on the citizens by being conditioned to be happy with the caste they are placed in and they are also conditioned to enjoy certain things and dislike other things to bring revenue in. This society is clearly a distopia because the citizens are conditioned to be like everyone else in the same caste, and they are not allowed to have individual thoughts.
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