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Clones

Clones
Brave new World?

Montag, 24. Mai 2010

Function of chapter one

Brave new world (Aldous Huxley)
Chapter 1 and its function
In chapter one, we can imagine a building, very ugly and painted in grey. In this building, the world rulers of the future are hatching new human beings, although they are “only” clones. The first …man who is talking, is the director of the hatching corporation, shortly the D.H.C. . This man is talking to a couple of students, (which are cloned, too) and he explains the function of every room and every level of the factory to them.
In this early state of the book, it is obvious that the students are not able to think on their own. Each thing, which is said by them, was conditioned, was learned by them in their childhood. The function of the students is to show how the humans are made unable to think freely.
The next point is the color and the design of that building. Grey everywhere, lamps are treated as ghosts, workers seemed to be zombies or something like that, and you can´t see colors anywhere. So the building is a symbol of…inhumanity. Evil, cruel, whatever ? May be…but I think only the cold side of this brave new world shall be shown by the hatchery.
Okay, then we got the director. The director seems to be a master to the students; they write down everything what he says. (The cleverness of the students again…) However, the director explains everything that they have to know about the hatching factory. In another room, they see the “bottles”, in which the new clones are hold in while the “pregnancy phase”. As the director told the students something about parents, they blush, but only because they were told so in the past. This is another hint to the intelligence of the clones.
The reader knows, after reading the first pages, that the citizens of the brave new world are divided into some casts, from alpha (the highest cast) to epsilon and gamma (the lower casts). Each member of the one cast is proud to be in his cast and admires the upper classes.
Furthermore, a feminine nurse is introduced, but in chapter one, the reader does not know that she is one of the main characters. Lenina Crowne, proud (-.-) beta cast member, is, as I said, nurse, and the director does not think of any cruelties while he claps her backside…as a lover. So…the reader knows, (thanks to mister director) that each women and man is a free object for sexual happiness.
Great, huh?
But in fact, the nurse doesn’t care about this, she is a beta, and betas haven’t a right to forbid activities that seem to be funny to alphas. Next points…free sexual activity for every citizen of the brave new world and mindlessness of them.
All in all, the first chapter shows 3 main points of the system which rules the world in this book:
First point: Coldness of the new human beings and the way they are produced.
Second point: The clones are not able to thin freely.
Third point: Main activity of the clones: sexual activities…
Thank you :D

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