Brave New World Chapter Summaries

Brave New World The story for Brave New World starts somewhere in Central London with a group of students getting a tour of a hatchery and conditioning centre. Through this tour we follow a director who explains to the children how life is created in these hatcheries instead of being produced by actual human beings. Whether the setting of the novel has an advantage over our world today is up for discussion. I formed my own opinion after reading the first six chapters and believe that living in the fictional setting is like living in a factory, it’s setup is very different from ours, and I wouldn’t want to live in such a world. Living in the World State is like living a life out of a factory where everything was made to fit a society’s needs. In physical terms, it really is a factory, people aren’t born but created and conditioned to act through hatcheries. “‘For in nature it takes thirty years for two hundred years to reach maturity. But our business is to stabilize the population at this moment, here and now…’” (Huxley). The people in these hatcheries also speak of the embryos as scientific numbers and experiments instead of people. That being said, life in …show more content…
Eggs, before they are born are put into different castes, "Alpha children… work much harder than we do, because they're so frightfully clever. I'm really awfully glad I'm a Beta, because I don't work so hard... we are much better than the Gammas and Deltas. Gammas are stupid... Delta children wear khaki… And Epsilons are still worse. They're too stupid to be able…" (Huxley). Based on their caste category they are then conditioned through the Bokanovsky Process which involves shocking an egg if in a low caste. People in this world are put into a caste system and their jobs and interests will be determined for them based on the needs of the