Brave New World Post One. British Noval Project.

I would first like to start off saying that Brave New World is a very well written book and is enjoyable to read. Aldous Huxley does a very good job with suspense. Even though the story line ins't that suspenseful, the way he writes makes it suspenseful and keeps me glued to the book.

So far in the story they have basically gone over the whole aspect of making children in the new world A.F. (after ford), the use of zoma as an everything healer, and most importantly the importance of efficiency in the world A.F.. They have also introduced some characters that I'm guessing will be the main characters in the story.

The way they make babies in the world A.F. is crazy. Every human-being is conditioned as an embryo to serve a specific purpose in life. And everyone is a pre-determined caste. They can either be Epsilon (the stupidest people, used for labor jobs), Gamma, Delta, Beta, or Alfa which are the smartest and also the tallest of the castes'. All the babies start as Embryo's in a factory and our conditioned to their destined caste. In the process of conditioning embryo's are basically tortured, depending on their destined caste. The farther down the caste you are the more you will be conditioned. Babies and children are also fed massive amounts of propaganda. They don't live in houses with parents like we do, they are raised by the government and when they reach their adult age they go to work. While in these government houses they are constantly being fed propaganda through all types of methods, mainly they use hypnopaedic. Hypnopaedic is a way to feed children propaganda in their sleep and engrave it in their brains. The main slogan that every caste of children gets is " Everyone works everyone else."

The thing that stands out to me the most in this book is the lack of individuality in their society. Everyone is born into their occupation and never has a chance to be anything different. In the world A.F. nobody has any options. I have a feeling this is going to play a big part in the plot of the book because one of the main characters, Brenard Marx, is one of the few people in the world A.F. society that is somewhat of an individual.