The narrative suddenly begins to shift back and forth between three different scenes, splicing in Mustapha Mond's speech to the boys with scenes of Henry's conversation in the male changing room and Lenina's conversation in the female training room. While heading to the rooms, Henry snubs Bernard Marx who is said to have an unsavory reputation. Henry Foster and Lenina each head up to the changing rooms in preparation for their date. At the complex, four thousand electric clocks simultaneously strike four, marking the shift change. The Director reverently introduces the man as "his fordship" Mustapha Mond. When he begins to explain the deleterious effects of sexual repression, a man interrupts him. After the boy is whisked off to see the psychologist, the Director astounds the students by explaining that sexual play during childhood and adolescence used to be considered abnormal and immoral. It soon becomes clear that the little boy, for some reason, is uncomfortable with the erotic play in which the children are encouraged to participate. Men who have to hang upside down doing rocket repairs are conditioned to only be happy when they're upside down. In other words, men who have to mine in the tropics are conditioned to hate the cold. The students observe the predestinating process: men are conditioned to love whatever job they will have. The current issue on the table is how to get Epsilons to mature faster physically, since their brains do not need time to mature anyway. But they're stupid because they're engineered to be stupid by oxygen deprivation. It follows, then, that Epsilons are at the bottom.
Alphas seem to be the top of the heap, which is nice and logical. It becomes clear that these labels we heard earlier like "Alpha" and "Epsilon" are categories for various groups of people. Flawless, except sometimes the women grow beards.Īfter that, the doctor continues, it's a simple matter of conditioning the young'ins to be whatever it is they've been predestined to be, like Directors or sewage workers.
Foster explains, isn't necessary for most of the females (because of the Bokanovsky thing), so they give most of the eggs enough male sex hormone to make them infertile. So at every meter along the way (it takes 267 days), some other concoction is fed to the eggs, or some test is taken, and so on.Īt meter 200, they test for sex: male, female, freemartins (to be explained shortly). There are fifteen racks on which the bottles are stored, each traveling through the various rooms at thirty-three and one
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