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Tuesday, January 24, 2017

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Chapter 1 - Summary\nThe legend opens in the Central capital of the United Kingdom Hatchery and Conditioning Centre. The year is A.F. 632 (632 historic period after Ford). The theatre theater valetaging theatre director of Hatcheries and Conditioning is giving a group of students a hitch of a factory that dos homo beings and conditions them for their predestined roles in the orb State. He explains to the boys that human beings no longer produce alive offspring. Instead, surgically removed ovaries produce ova that are fertilized in factitious receptacles and incubated in specially knowing bottles.\nThe hatchery predestined each fetus for a peculiar(a) caste in the World State. The quint castes are of import, Beta, Gamma, Delta, and Epsilon. Gamma, Delta, and Epsilon brook the Bokanovsky Process, which involves dire an egg so that it divides to spirt up to ninety-six selfsame(a) embryos, which then develop into ninety-six undistinguishable human beings. The Al pha and Beta embryos never undergo this dividing process, which can weaken the embryos. The director explains that the Bokanovsky Process facilitates social constancy because the cl peerlesss it produces are predestined to carry through identical tasks at identical machines. The cloning process is one of the tools the World State uses to carry through its guiding motto: Community, Identity, Stability.\nThe director goes on to describe Podsnaps Technique, which speeds up the ripening process of nut within a sensation ovary. With this method, hundreds of related individuals can be produced from the ova and sperm of the same man and woman within devil years. The average production treasure using Podsnaps Technique is 11,000 brothers and sisters in 150 batches of identical twins. Called over by the director, Mr. Henry Foster, an employee at the plant, tells the attentive students that the record for this particular factory is over 16,000 siblings.\nThe director and Henry Foster appease to explain the processes of the plant to the boys. afterwards fertilization, the embryos travel...

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