He tells them that in this controlled society, individual passions such as love, have been replaced by communal spirit and casual promiscuity. Now, Mustapha Mond, one of the ten all-powerful World Controllers, takes over from the Director to lecture to the students. The Director explains the Bokanovsky Process which involves the production of 96 identical twins from a single fertilized egg, thereby making maximum conformity possible. The visiting students are told that in the new society, individual differences have been eliminated so as to achieve the goals of Community, Stability and Identity, and people are now grouped, according to the stage of their development right from fetal stage, as Alpha-Plus, the highly intelligent leaders, to Epsilon Minus Morons, the misshape ape-like fools who have to do all the dirty work. Like mass production of cars, mass-production of babies has been made possible by means of artificial insemination and fertilization of eggs. The brave new world has already been ushered in, and time is measured from the time of the discovery and mass-production of Model T Ford, 632 years having elapsed since that time when the action of the novel begins. The novel opens with a scene at the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Center where its Director is showing this plant to a group of students. Conditioning makes workers content with their lot, and they have no higher aspirations or spiritual values to counter their enjoyment of material pleasures. Philosophy, art and literature are substituted by sensual life.
– have any place in the life lived in this world. None of the emotions like love, hatred, friendship, etc. Reproduction here is a standard laboratory matter, and people are turned out systematically conditioned for the several strata of life. The people belonging to this world are graded from highest intellectuals to lowest manual workers. In this world, social stability has been achieved through a scientific caste-system. It presents a picture of that world based on science. Brave New World is a utopian novel set in a future world state in the year 632 A.F.
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