BRAVE NEW WORLD |---[ Chapter 1 ]---|>

CHAPTER ONE


World State's Motto: COMMUNITY, IDENTITY, STABILITY


Summary: The book starts out with a 34-story, grey building called the Central London Hatchery  and Conditioning Centre. Inside, a group of students are undergoing a tour of the facilities. These facilities are riddled with giant mechanisms responsible for mass production of human life. Although it is not just a breeding ground, it is where the new human beings are assigned their roles in life as well. Will they become one of the new leaders? Will they succumb to a career in the smelly pits of the sewers? The folks at the centre decide this and separate the new humans into 5 different groups. Alpha, which we assume is the caste for the intelligent, you'll-go-far-in-life people. These will be given the most care and most likely given as natural birth as possible. (Within reason. You wouldn't really call 96 embryos from one egg natrual...) Then there are the Epsilons which undergo oxygen deprivation to stunt the growth and development of the brain which disables them from having any intelligence or very little free thought. 


Literary Elements:
Simile: "Lying along the polished tubes like butter, streak after luscious streak in long recession down the work tables."

Simile and Personification: "And in effect the sultry darkness into which the students now followed him was visible and crimson, like the darkness of closed eyes on a summer's afternoon." 

Significant Meaning/Events:

• Control of Birth
• Control of Intelligence
• Control of Destiny
• Control of Environment


Vocabulary:

Castes - Used in describing the Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, & Epsilon as groups.

Why Chapter is Important:  

          Introduces the world and begins to detail the Hatchery and Conditioning Centre along with it's control on the people in the dystopian society. It starts telling how the people are created through a sort of bokanovskification (really hate that 'word') process that yields as many as 96 different embryos from a single egg. It gets pretty creepy when the description of the predestination comes in, where the society will purposely cut off oxygen to the brain of the soon-to-be-"human" in order to suppress it's right of intelligence thus making him/her more suited for dirty work in the mines or sewers.