Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Chapter 1 - Summary\nThe novel opens in the Central London Hatchery and instruct Centre. The year is A.F. 632 (632 years later Ford). The director of Hatcheries and teach is giving a chemical group of students a tour of a factory that produces human beings and conditions them for their predestinate roles in the orb State. He relieves to the boys that human beings no long-lived produce living offspring. Instead, surgically removed ovaries produce ova that atomic number 18 fertilized in artificial receptacles and incubated in specially designed bottles.\nThe hatchery ordain each fetus for a particular caste in the World State. The five castes be Alpha, important, Gamma, Delta, and Epsilon. Gamma, Delta, and Epsilon undergo the Bokanovsky c atomic number 18 for, which involves shocking an eggs so that it divides to form up to ninety-six monovular embryos, which then(prenominal) develop into ninety-six analogous human beings. The Alpha and Beta embryos never undergo th is dividing process, which throne weaken the embryos. The director explains that the Bokanovsky Process facilitates social stability because the clones it produces are predestined to perform identical tasks at identical machines. The clone process is one of the tools the World State uses to implement its head motto: Community, Identity, Stability.\nThe director goes on to describe Podsnaps Technique, which speeds up the modify process of eggs indoors a single ovary. With this method, hundreds of related to individuals can be produced from the ova and sperm cell of the same man and char within two years. The just production rate using Podsnaps Technique is 11,000 brothers and sisters in cl batches of identical twins. Called over by the director, Mr. total heat Foster, an employee at the plant, tells the oversolicitous students that the record for this particular factory is over 16,000 siblings.\nThe director and Henry Foster continue to explain the processes of the plant t o the boys. After fertilization, the embryos travel...