In Neo-Pavlovian conditioning, babies enter a room filled with books and roses. After the babies are decanted from their bottles, they are conditioned through Neo-Pavlovian conditioning and hypnopaedia. The students view the various techniques for producing more babies and watch as the process segregates babies into various castes. An assembly line creates embryos using the latest advancements in science. Pre- and post-natal conditioning further ensures social stability.īrave New World opens with the Director of the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre giving a group of young students a tour of the facilities. A drug called soma ensures that no one ever feels pain or remains unhappy, and members of every caste receive rations of the drug.
Alphas and Betas are at the top of the system and act as the scientists, politicians, and other top minds, while Gammas, Deltas, and Epsilons are at the bottom and represent the world's industrial working class.
World Controllers rule the world and ensure the stability of society through the creation of a five-tiered caste system. stands for the year of Ford, named for the great industrialist Henry Ford who refined mass production techniques for automobiles. 632, approximately seven centuries after the twentieth century. Helmholtz asks to be sent to the Falkland Islands where he feels he could write better.The novel is set in A.F. Being told he's to be sent to Iceland, Bernard accuses John and Helmholtz of guilt, that he didn't do anything wrong. Nineteen out of the twenty-two thousand Alphas were killed in Civil War. 473 to make everyone an Alpha-Double-Plus. The world's stable now." The Controller also tells them of the failed experiment on the island of Cyprus in A.F. you can’t make tragedies without social instability. He says "Because our world is not the same as Othello’s world. He says that beauty is not wanted in the world anymore, or anything old and that people don't understand it anyway. Helmholtz joins in the conversation also asking the Controller why it isn't possible and he explains. John remembers how Helmholtz had laughed at Romeo and Juliet and wonders if something like that play, but one that people could understand would be acceptable to the Controller. Only Mond, the World Controller, can make or break laws.
Bernard is terrified of his association now with John and what the Controller will think of him. Mond enters and starts a discussion with John, asking him directly "So you don't much like civilisation, Mr. Bernard is cheerless and John wandering aimlessly about.
Helmholtz is laughing that "It's more like a caffeine-solution party than a trial". A Gamma butler shows John, Bernard and Helmholtz into his fordship and World Controller Mustapha Mond's study. Chapter 16 is key to understanding the main ideology of Brave New World.
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