Brave New World Pt. 1The book that I chose to read is called Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. This book takes place on earth, specifically in Central London at the year 632 after ford (a.f). The story opens up to a Director giving some students a tour at the Hatchery and Conditioning Center. This centre is a factory that produces human beings and conditions them for a their prepared and fated role in the World State. In this world human beings no longer produce living offspring. Instead, they use removed ovaries that produce ova that are fertilized in synthetic and incubated in developed bottles. So, through this surgeric removal each fetus produced is assigned to an specific caste. There's Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta and Epsilon, and they all have pre-destined jobs. So, all groups goes through a Bokanovsky process, which is basically cloning, except for Alpha and Beta. The Bokanovky process is a process that shocks eggs with electricity that causes the egg to divide into ninety-six embryos, all identical, that later become human beings. The director goes to different sections of the factory and introduced Henry Foster, and employee at the plant, who explains about the fetuses undergo different treatments depending on their castes. So, different castes have to deal with different things. For example, the students observed how the nurses brought some books and flowers to the Delta babies. Also, they introduce Lenina Crowne to the student who is a nurse and talks about the development of growth. They all crawl to them with such joy and create a positive atmosphere. Then, the babies get an electric shock. After being shocked the nurses bring the flowers and the books the babies turn away from them in terror. Basically, some castes get shocked in order to grow hatred to certain things that the factory chooses. Reading this book has been very interesting. What really caught my attention the most was the use of technology and science and compared it to our society in that aspect nowadays. Our technology is so advanced and it's crazy to see how advanced it's getting, I mean it isn't as advanced as the one in the book, but it can lead to that. I am amazed on how they want certain castes to have specific fears. I've never read something like this and that's why I really am super interested and intrigued. I am excited to see how the castes differentiate. The way the government has a large role in a way that they take control over everything. It's a very thought-provoking book and it makes me think about how I would never like to live in a world like that.
I will comment on Paulina's and Jenny's post.
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Piper Hallack
6/8/2018 02:09:56 pm
How do you think this came about and is not allowed from an ethical stand point? I don't quite understand how they started this and how it has gotten so far.
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Paulina
6/8/2018 02:17:22 pm
I would like to know what your opinion is on this situation and how do you think this process started? Great explanation of the whole process and seems like you are understanding the book so far.
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Jenny L.
6/8/2018 02:39:43 pm
Why do you think that the doctors feel like they need to be doing these modifications to the babies? I think you described the section you have read very well.
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