Chapter 1
Summary:
The novel is set six hundred years in the future. The world has submitted to domination by World Controllers, whose primary goal is to ensure the stability and happiness of society. Thus the underlying principle of the regime is utilitarianism, or maximizing the overall happiness of the society. The novel begins at the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Center, a production factory for human beings. A group of students is being given a tour of the facilities by the Director.
The students are introduced to various machines and techniques used to promote the production and conditioning of embryos. The scientists take an ovary, remove and fertilize the eggs, force the eggs to bud up to ninety-six times, and subsequently grow the embryos in bottles. Predestinators then decide the future fuction of each embryo within the society, essentially assigning a future job to each human.
The society contains a five-tiered caste system which ranks Alphas and Betas on......

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Title: Brave New World
Approximate Word Count: 11057
Approximate Pages: 45 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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