![]() ![]() Bokanovsky’s process is the process of human cloning, making human reproduction ninety-six times more efficient, by giving fertilized eggs special hormones that cause them to multiply up to ninety-six times. I found the idea of conditioning hugely interesting as I read the first few chapters because the World Controllers in Brave New World do not stop at sleep conditioning, they manage to change every aspect of human biology to suit them. Throughout this first chapter Huxley cleverly introduces to the audience the new world from a caste system of Alpha pluses to Epsilons, to the central idea of sleep conditioning playing various tracks to children at the hatchery whilst they sleep to embed the intrinsic good and evils of society. The novel starts with the Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning (DHC) touring a group of students around the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Center. Not only has the title been drawn directly from Miranda’s quote, but it is also said by another outcast of society who has only recently been introduced to the world John, otherwise referred to as the Savage.īrave New World (available from: ) is set in the year 2540, with a new age of civilization engulfing mankind in a world of casual sex, recreational drugs endorsed by the government and, perhaps most importantly of all, a world of sleep-conditioning. Miranda’s entire experience of mankind has, until very recently, been only her elderly father and his deformed slave Caliban.Īldous Huxley takes a very similar scope on this grand exposition in his 1932 dystopian novel, Brave New World. ![]() In The Tempest, one of Shakespeare’s most well known plays, Exiled from Milan, the former duke Prospero and his daughter Miranda have been stranded for twelve years on an uncharted island. That has such people in’t!” Miranda, The Tempest. How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world How many goodly creatures are there here! ![]()
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