A “hatching mistake”-alcohol supposedly got in his blood surrogate is said to be responsible for his “odd” behaviour. Marx is an Alpha-Plus psychologist who is not very attractive, too slim and small and likes to be on his own. Meanwhile, inside the centre Lenina Crown, who also works in the centre, reveals to her friend Fanny an unconventionally monogamous sexual loyalty to Henry Foster, but at the same time admits her attraction to Bernard Marx.
He quotes Henry Ford: “History is bunk.” However, Mond provides a short overview of BNW’s history, especially why the Nine Years War was a turning point in society as this was the end of life as we know it since the World State was born. Then Mustapha Mond, one of the 10 World Controllers appears and lectures the students on the evil of family life and the benefits of social security. The students are brought outdoors to watch children being sexually conditioned to accept and participate in erotic games, without having moral concerns or becoming emotionally attached to the sexual partners. Chapter 3 This is stylistically the most experimental chapter of the novel. These lessons are repeated very often so that they become part of the children’s personalities. They also learn about sleep-teaching, where the World State’s propagandistic slogans are drummed into the unconscious minds of the sleeping children. The students witness the conditioning of babies to fear and dislike nature and books, as they are a Delta group. Chapter 2 They enter the Nurseries where children are conditioned for their future lives.
Finally, the group heads towards the Decanting Room and Foster stays behind.
Foster and the director explain the students the technological wonders of the BNW. Then the obedient students, the director and Henry Forster, a scientist, move to the Social Predestination Room in which the embryos are conditioned for their later position in life. The second room is the Bottling Room where the embryo’s are put into bottles which represent the mother’s womb. The first group stays in the incubators whereas the second group’s eggs are multiplied to provide the World State with its less educated servants. The ovaries are fertilised and then the foetuses in the incubators are divided into two groups: the Alphas and Betas and the Gammas, Deltas and Epsilons. The first room is the Fertilising Room in which the first stage of the hatchery process takes place. Chapter 1 The Director shows a group of students the Hatchery and Conditioning Centre.
This refers to Henry Ford’s invention of the first automobile. It is a world without a family life where babies are produced in bottles and conditioned so that they are satisfied with their lives which have been planned for them from start to finish. Brave New World Summary In the future our society will have undergone a significant change as all human values will be different and the people will live in the Brave New World.
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