Brave New World: Ch 1

1. Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre - A.F. 632
1. World State’s motto: “community, identity, and stability”
1. Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning shows students around the building, telling them the history and process of fertilization
1. “A troop of newly arrived students, very young, pink and callow, followed nervously, rather abjectly...” (pg 4)
2. “Tall and rather thin but upright, the Director advanced into the room. He had a long chin and big rather prominent teeth, just covered, when he was not talking, by his full, floridly curved lips.”
1. direct characterization → usage of imagery  
3. “Straight from the horse’s mouth. It was a rare privilege.”  (pg 4)
4. “Meanwhile, it was a privilege. Straight from the horse’s mouth into the notebook” (pg 4)
1. repetition of animal imagery
2. the use of idiom - depicts authority
2. Bokanovsky’s Process → bud, proliferate, divide
1. eight to 96 buds → every bud grows to become perfect embryos → embryos grow to become full-sized adults
1. 96 human beings as opposed to 1 → progress
2. Major instruments of social stability
3. “...fertility is merely a nuisance.” (pg 13)
1. the idea of natural birthing experience is repeatedly thought of as below par with the society they are living in; they thrive off of “progress” and “process”