BRAVE NEW WORLD |---[ Chapter 2 ]---|>

CHAPTER TWO

Summary:

The chapter begins with the Director taking the students to the decanting room. Here the babies are psychologically trained what to be afraid of and how no desire towards. In this case, it's flower and books. This way they have no desire for nature or for gathering information via books. Then there is another place where the Betas are taught through little speakers echoing things into their heads as they sleep. The chapter then ends with the Director getting really into a point he's making, slamming his fist down onto a nearby table, waking the sleeping/learning babies.
Literary Elements:

Introduction to Ford - Symbol === A messiah figure for the society, due to the assembly line which the society's human recreation process seems to emulate. 


Trumpet's mouths - Personification === describing the physical speakers teaching the sleeping Betas

Events: 

Death of Polish, French, and German languages === Everyone speaks a uniform language that keeps everything without confusion allowing easier control over the masses.

Vocabulary:


Hypnopaedia - (n.) The learning of lessons while asleep
Sibilant - (adj.) hissing sound or quality
Indefatigable - (adj.) incapable of feeling tired, or fatigued




Why Chapter is Important:
          By electrocuting the baby's, it shows just one more area of the mass produced citizens that society has control over. By controlling their likes/dislikes/fears, they have essentially made a consumer class who can be manipulated to spend their money wherever they please, or whatever economic area it is needed. Also the death of the Polish, French, as well as the German languages also show another area of society's control, due to having everyone speak the same language allowing for much easier manipulation among the people. And the last control technique we see in the chapter is the sleep-learning of the Betas. It pounds the information and opinions into the baby's heads while they sleep which is exactly like the shock therapy only applied less barbarically to those who were selected in the higher/more successful caste.