Brief Summary Of Aldous Huxley's 'Brave New World'

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The novel 'Brave New World' was written by the English writer and philosopher Aldous Huxley and published in 1962.
Chapter two deals with the tour from the D.H.C and his students. He teaches them about the importance of social conditioning.

The D.H.C and his students are in a Infant Nurseries Neo-Pavlovian Conditioning Room. It is a bright and sunny room with one window.
In the room are many nurses and some of them put flowers and books in a row across the floor. Then they bring eight-month-old Delta children into the room.
The children crawl towards the shiny pages and bright colors with excitement.
A nurse presses a small lever, suddenly there is a violent expression with shrill sirens, which leads the children to scream.
The nurse presses

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