Reading LogBrave New World

Chapter Summaries

Chapter 1·Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning shows new arrived students the Fertilizing Room in the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre·Bukanovsky's Process (8-96 perfectly formed embryos, identical twins)·World State's motto: Community, Identity, Stability·Year of stability, A.F. 632 (632 years after Henry Ford)·Caste system (same heredity = same environment)·Conditioning as part of upbringing and education

Chapter 2·Neo-Pavlovian Conditioning Room: flowers and books across the floors, electroic shocks when they touch the objects (? “instinctive“ hatred of books and flowers)·Reuben Rabinovitch (“Little Reuben“) ? discovery of sleep-teaching (hypnopaedia)·Elementary Class Consciousness: taught to be confident with the own caste and do not like lower castes (repeated a hundred and twenty times three times a week for thirty months)

Chapter 3Scene 1: Mustapha Mond, Director (D.H.C.), students

·Director and students watch playtime of naked six or seven hundred little boys and girls·Kids playing rudimentary sexual games ? Kids refusing to play these games are brought to the Assistant Superintendent of Psychology·Director tells some “incredible“ history facts (sexual activity with twenty years), when Mustapha Mond, one of the Ten World Controllers for Western Europe, appears·Mond teaches the student some history

Scene 2: Henry Foster, Assistant Predestinator, Bernard Marx·

Scene 3: Lenina and Fanny Crowne·