announces piously that virtue and goodness spring from the work of the social predestinators, whose job is "making people like their inescapable social destiny." With this statement, Huxley introduces a major theme - the role of choice and even pain in becoming a full human being. The eugenics lab answers the identity challenge conditioning manages satisfaction. Stability requires both the elimination of differences (except with regard to caste) and the end of dissatisfaction. and Henry Foster, can complement one another effortlessly, even to the point of completing each other's sentences. In a brilliant adaptation of Ford's assembly line, the Central London Hatchery turns out (nearly) interchangeable human beings, who, like the D.H.C. briskly explains the technology of fertilization - the most intimate human activity - as the carefully calculated, sterile procedure to produce identical people. Personal identity - perhaps even humanity itself - is strangled by the demands of community and stability.
The Fordian world does not seem so menacing and sinister as Orwell's 1984, but the reader can see even in the first chapter that the cheeriness masks a dark reality. Stability." All the technology, planning, and conditioning of this World State exist solely to support and maintain these ends. In the reader's first glimpse of the dystopia, Huxley drives home the significance of his futuristic world with the motto "Community. The chapter also introduces two workers at the Centre: Henry Foster, who will figure as a minor character in the story and "pneumatic" Lenina Crowne, a major character who will affect the destiny of the novel's protagonist. The conditioning that goes along with this process aims to make the people accept and even like their "inescapable social destiny." That destiny occurs within a Caste System (or social hierarchy) ranging from the handsome and intelligent Alpha Pluses down to the working drone Epsilons. explains the basic operation of the plant - Bokanovsky's Process - in which one fertilized egg produces from 8 to 96 "buds" that will grow into identical human beings. They begin at the Fertilizing Room, move on to the Bottling Room, the Social Predestination Room, and the Decanting Room. This institution plays an essential role in the artificial reproduction and social conditioning of the world's population.Īs the chapter begins, the Director of the Centre (the D.H.C.) conducts a group of new students, as well as the reader, on a tour of the facility and its operations - a biological version of the assembly line, with test-tube births as the product.
The novel opens in the distant future at the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre.
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