Brave New World Chapter 1 Analysis

Chapter 1-3 Brave New World starts out around 600 years into the future at a place near central London. Aldous Huxley gives an image of a gray building of thirty-four stories called the "Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre" (Huxley 3). Inside this building is where the Director of the Hatchery and one of his assistants, Henry Foster, are giving a tour. They see the embryos travel in bottles along a conveyor belt. The bottles are labeled to belong to one of five castes: Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, or Epsilon (Huxley 11). The Director talks about the fetuses and how they undergo different treatments depending on their castes (Huxley 14). For example, oxygen deprivation and alcohol treatment ensure the lower intelligence and smaller size of members of the three lower castes (Huxley 14). So, the Director tries to explain in the best terms how everything happens. Then while on the tour we get introduced to the stunning Lenina Crowne, Henry Foster’s girlfriend (Huxley 17). Next, the Director is leading the group of students to the Nurseries (Huxley 20). The group sees how the babies react and act towards certain objects, like flowers and books. This is the way the Director tries to control the Delta type of babies (Huxley 21-25). Then to start off chapter three, The Director …show more content…
I personally felt like Aldous Huxley put a lot of time and thought about how the babies are reproduced in the future. After thinking about all the information it wonders me how much time he spent on creating all of these little details? I personally think that with all these details it only helps his story line. Another thing that I would like to know is why would he pick the invention of the Henry Ford as the head of the new world (AF)? The last question that I would want to know the answer for was why are the children taught to not like books and