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Chapter One ~First Charater introduced: The Director ~World State is the moral and government control ~Humans no longer reproduce sexually ~Place: The Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre ~Time: a.f.632 (after ford) ~ The Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre:34 stories high, cold, sterile, gloomy ~Five castes: Epsilon, Delta, Gamma, Beta, and Alpha ~Epsilon: malformed, carriers, sewage workers, liftmen, foundry workers, can’t read or write, semi-morons, wear only black ~Delta: helicopter attendants, cold pressers, screw-cutters, package packers, mass produced, have no personality, only wear khaki ~Gamma: butlers, work with machines, wear only green ~Beta: Mechanics, some-what intellegent, only wear mulberry ~Alpha: Directors of Hatcheries, Wardons, World Controller, smartest caste, only wear gray ~The students scribble word for word what the Director says ~In this world the children are developed like products (in a process—which they are decanted in a female pig’s womb) ~“That is the secret of happiness and virtue— liking what you’ve got to do. All conditioning aims at that: making people like their unescapable social destiny.” ~Women get paid at least 6 months salary for letting the Centre have their ovaries taken out ~Bokanovsky Process: process in which the three castes with the least intellegence undergo, forms 96 identical human beings from one egg ~World State Motto: “Community, Identity, Stability”, Oceania Motto: “War is peace, Freedom is slavory, Ignorance is Strength” ~Podsnap's Technique: Speeds up the process of the eggs growth ~the record for one egg is 16,000 siblings ~Each egg is destined for an occupation, and the eggs are condition to meet the requirements of the occupation ~Henry is introduced as a speaker in The Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre ~Henry and the director are giving a tour to students ~Lenina works in The Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre ~Lenina has purple eyes, lupus, and red coral teeth ~Lenina and Henry have a date ~They don’t have time to see the conditioning of the Alpha Plus Chapter Two ~Delta caste wears khaki colored clothes ~ The Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre conditions the babies by shocking them when they go near the flowers and books ~ “Moral education, which ought never, in any circumstances, to be rational.” ~I learned about this method of learning in pshychology (Learning by negitive reinforcement—by shocking the babies they learn to associate the flowers and books with the shock—therefore they associate flowers and books with a bad thing, and want to stay away from the bad thing) ~“What man has joined, nature is powerless to put asunder” ~No one in the World State is supposed to have a love for nature ~Each caste has a higher and lower division (a+, a) ~Rueben Rabinovitch left his radio on one night while he was sleeping, the next morning he woke up repeating the speech word for word ~Rueben’s parents thought he was crazy because they didn’t speak English, they speak Polish ~”Now, But then most historical facts are unpleasant.” ~ The doctors use Hyponophaedia to teach moral education ~The T replaces the cross in this society ~The word “FORD” replaces “LORD” ~”The greatest moralizing and socializing force of all time.” (about hypnopaedia) Chapter Three ~Naked children are playing ~They play a game called Centrifugal Bumble-puppy ~A boy feels that the sexual interaction between the children is wrong ~Mustapha Ford is introduced as one of the World Controllers ~ “History is bunk” ~Huxley suggests that unless humans change, then there will be a war which will end us all—This reminds me of the views that African Americans have taken in the past recents weeks…they believe that a hate war will end us all ~Bernard works in the Psychology department ~The World State feels that anything that creates emotional conflict (such as family, sexuality, and desire) will create conflict between the castes and stability of the World State ~People believe that Mustapha holds immoral possessions, however doesn’t allow others to ~ “Ending is better than mending.