Reading Log (Epic)

This entry not only is a reading log but to me it meant far more.

It was in France when the feeling to write something down took over.
My family and I were there for holiday in a nice, small appartment 500 metres from the sea. For the weather did not play its part very well and also because I took lots of english literature ('Death of a Salesman', 'Long Day's Journey into Night', 'A Streetcar named Desire' – to tell the best ones) with me I brought myself to continue reading BNW. Two hours later I finished it once more, but this time I more understood it! Maybe even the way Huxley wanted me to understand: Not only what is basically written, but to incorporate and feel the connection of the book to your own life.

The structure of society in Brave New World (BNW)

Creation and education of human beings:

People in BNW undergo prenatal methods, which were not invented but popular to Huxley and his contemporaries in order to predestine their development.

So they are produced in Bokanovsky's Process (Gamma – Epsilon) in which the ovaries bod and proliferate from 8 to 96. This technique is the basis of the society for it delivers the workers for the World State.
Furthermore the future members of lower castes are treated with alcohol and insufficient oxygen so their intelligence level is kept only as high as necessary.

Function of Chapter 1

Summary of this chapter:

The novel opens in the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre. The year is a.f. 632 (632 years “after Ford”). The Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning is giving a group of students a tour of a factory that produces human beings and conditions them for their predestined roles in the World State. He explains to the boys that human beings no longer produce living offspring. Instead, surgically removed ovaries produce ova that are fertilized in artificial receptacles and incubated in specially designed bottles.

Function:

The first chapter of the novel gives an impression of the philosophy of the new citizens and is in fact an enumeration of stunning scientific achievements which make it hard to distinguish between what is more valuable: human beings or technologies.

Reading Log of BNW

This post is set up to let you know about my thoughts by reading BNW.

Everything that comes to my mind in doing so you'll find here until I found a better way than posts to upload them.

1. As I already read the Novel I find so many indications of what's wrong in the society in the book's first lines. Also my english wasnt that good compared to my skills right now so  I couldnt picture bokanofsky's process well. By reading it yesterday i immediately thought of the video i uploaded below.

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'So long as there are men, there will be wars.'
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