Bernard and Lenina are both characters that are outside the norm of their society. Bernard doesn’t like it when the boys talk about Lenina as though she was meat, and he doesn’t believe in, or enjoy taking soma like everyone else. Lenina is a typical civilized girl in this society. People are encouraged to date more than one person at a time. People who aren’t sexually active are considered outcasts. Chapter 3 Children are encouraged to play erotic games at a very young age during recess.
Although, growing up in a world like this, you wouldn?t know the difference. Unfair to Life, and to the Human condition. Being predestined to a certain lifestyle, and life before you knew what was out there, and the loss of the freedom to make the choice for yourself, and having thoughts and concepts programmed into you to act as an Instinct is unfair. Personally though, I?d hate to live in a world like this. Machieavelli would have jumped on these ideas in an instant if they were plausible at the time.
As I said before, these ideas, and procedures for conditioning are sound, and beneficial to the society of this world. They are consciously repeating to themselves how glad they are to be Betas, and how Gammas and Betas are unfit and gross. They visit the Beta’s room where they are undergoing elementary class-consciousness. Foster shows the D.H.C., and his students, how they train the Deltas to hate flowers and reading by shocking them, and using loud noises and explosions. It got us this far, so it can?t be too bad! Chapter 2 In this chapter, Mr. I believe we as a race strive on our freedoms and our individuality. From my PERSONAL view, and from a HUMAN View, this is all wrong. The budding, creating many identical twins, gets rid of the ?individual? aspect of humanity, and allows the masses to be easily predicted, and controlled. The grouping into five classes, and the conditioning for each class to never want to be any of the other classes makes it easy to control the population, because they are all content and happy. From a political view, this is also good, because you can create the people you want in the society, and be rid of the waste. Positive abilities such as reducing of maturity time, Increased intelligence, strength and senses. It gets rid of the process of natural evolution, and allows for the customization of the human race. Manipulating the genes allows for almost any combination of strengths, or weaknesses whichever is needed. (decanting/conditioning) it allows for a race of specialized humans to perform individualized tasks. From a scientific view, this process is good. They produce humans, and shape them the way that they want them to be. It is basically a hatchery for humans from egg, till they are ready to be adults. Brave New World Chapter Notes & Comments Essay, Research Paper Brave New World Notes / Comments Chapter 1 In this Chapter, tour of the Hatchery/Conditioning Centre.
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