In the book Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley, the novel opens in the Central London Hatching and Conditioning Centre, where the Director of the Hatchery and one of his assistants, Henry Foster, are giving a tour to a group of boys. The boys learn about the Bokanovsky and Podsnap Processes that allow the Hatchery to produce thousands of nearly identical human embryos. During the gestation period the embryos travel in bottles along a conveyer belt through a factorylike building, and are conditioned to belong to one of five castes: Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, or Epsilon. The Alpha embryos are destined to become the leaders and thinkers of the World State. Each of the succeeding castes is conditioned to be slightly less physically and intellectually impressive. The Epsilons, stunted and stupefied by oxygen deprivation and chemical treatments, are destined to perform menial labor. Lenina Crowne, an employee at the factory, describes to the boys how she vaccinates embryos destined for tropical climates.My opinion about the book Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, would be it's truely weird they duplicate embryos by the thousands. And they have categories that separate you by how hot and sexual you are. And it's against the rules to fall in love with someone because they want you to have sex with as many people as possible and produce as many embryos as possible. They have this medicine that makes you really want to have sex with different people and they will even let you go where ever you want to go as long as you do what your suppose to do. It's just really weird.
Reviewed by Samantha, Grade 12.
Montrose Library
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Brave New World is about a futuristic society in which all the people are created through science. All people of the state do not age unless they leave its borders. Everybody is brain washed to think and act a certain way, and all forms of art and history are outlawed. The main character is the only different person out of all the people. He knows how to feel and have a sense of emotion that fixes everybody’s way of life.
This book was one of the weirdest books I have ever read. It was very creative and full of different ideas. As weird as it was, it was still a good book to read. Brave New World was easy to comprehend and gave a good laugh. I would recommend for people to read it if they like humor.
Reviewed by Anonymous, Grade 12
Glendale Central Library
This is a dystopian novel where babies are produced artificially in a lab. The book starts off in the Central London Hatching and Conditioning Centre, where babies are made in a lab. These babies are divided into five levels: Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, and Epsilon. Alpha is the top level, they are the leaders and the innovators. As you go down the levels, they are designed to be physically and mentally worse. The Epsilon have received chemical treatments and oxygen deprivation to design them to have a disadvantage. The Epsilon are destined to do only the most menial and basic tasks. The book grows up from there.
I feel like this book represents reality because the world here works similar to the way it works in reality. Your destiny is already partially decided as soon as you are born. You can't change your parents, and neither can they. In this book, a drug called soma exists. Soma is an anti-depressant that makes the user only feel happiness and joy, and forget about problems temporarily. Soma is symbolizing how people try to escape reality day to day, instead of just facing their problems. Also, soma is a great way for the government to control the population. Soma can give you great feelings, but at the price of your freedom and individuality. I really liked this book, it was a great eye opener.
Reviewed by A.E., Grade 9
Glendale Central Library
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley is a dystopian novel set in World State City, London. At this point in time, citizens aren't born from natural pregnancy but from artificial wombs. After being born, citizens are put into social classes that are based on intelligence and skill. There are also indoctrination programs that citizens are put into as children to determine what class they belong it. There are also many different things that happen in the book such as manipulation, social hierarchies, and extremely advanced technology.
This book, simply put, is amazing. It was published in 1932 but the writing is so modern and contemporary that it feels like someone from the future wrote it. Aldous Huxley's novel is a marvel. The language Huxley uses to describe things is beautiful.
I recommend Brave New World to all readers, but the language and themes the novel deals with could be a bit too advanced for younger readers. However, any reader would thoroughly enjoy this book and I highly suggest you take a read!
Reviewed by Melody S., Grade 10
Montrose Library
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