Name/Std no.

: Emanuel Ryan Nawastya Hantara / 9

Kind of Text : Novel

Title

: Brave New World

Publisher

: Penguin Readers

Years

: 1999 No. Of pages

: 20 pages

BRAVE NEW WORLD

(Chapter 1 3)
Brave New World is Huxleys most famous work. Set in an imaginary
future 600 years on, it represents the authors reflections on the state of
contemporary society. Brave New World occurs six hundred years in the
future. The world has submitted to domination by World Controllers,
whose primary goal is to ensure the stability and happiness of society. The
novel begins at the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre in
London, a production factory for human beings. A group of students
receives a tour of the facilities by the Director. Babies are no longer born.
They are hatched. The director explains the Bokanovskys process, which
takes one embryo and splits it into multiple soon-to-be babies.
The embryos are then treated based on its predetermined social caste
there are Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta and Epsilon. The society contains a
five-tiered caste system that ranks Alphas and Betas on top. Only the
Alphas and Betas come from single eggs that are not budded and hence
have no twins. Therefore, the Alphas represent the intellectually superior
group, followed by the Betas, and continuing down to the Epsilons, who
have little to no intelligence.
The students continue their tour of the Central London Hatchery and
Conditioning Centre. They watch a technique that trains infants. Here, the
use of electric shocks and sirens in response to touching roses or books
modifies the behavior of Deltas. Once they reach the items, alarms sound,
followed by electric shocks. The whole scene is meant to condition Deltas
to hate books and nature. The students also view a group of sleeping
infants who receive moral instruction through hypnopaedia learning as
they sleep. The Director then explains hypnopaedia, a process in which
sleeping children are conditioned according to caste by the replay of
messages as they sleep. In this chapter, infant Betas listen to a tape

played hundreds of times which influences them to believe they are

superior to Gammas, Deltas and Epsilons, but not as clever as Alphas.
The Director leads the students to go to a garden where they watch
some children playing a game. Young children are also encouraged to play
erotic, sexual games. A boy who refuses to play with a young girl must go
to a psychologist. Meanwhile, Lenina Crowne, a Beta Plus, discusses her
four month relationship with Alpha Henry Foster with her friend Fanny
Crowne, a Beta. Fanny is upset that Lenina is having such a long
relationship with only one man. She tells Lenina to have sex with other
men. Lenina agrees with Fanny and tells her that she likes Bernard Marx,
an Alpha Plus, and has decided to join him on a trip to the Savage
Reservations. Fanny is skeptical and says that she thinks Marx is a loner
and an introvert.