Brave New World

Largely, the World State is able to control society through technology in this fiction, set in the year 2540, or for 632 years after the creation of the first Model T. car by American industrialist Henry Ford. This is the Central London Hatching and Conditioning Centre, a savage reservation in New Mexico, a Utopia, where no family life has existed for more than six centuries. Human life is manufactured from the Bokanosky and Podsnan Processes, which produce almost identical human embryos and condition them in bottles, according to five castes: Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta and Epsilon. Alpha embryos are to become the leaders and thinkers of the World State, like Bernard Marx. The two lesser castes are slightly less physically and intellectually programmed than the Alphans. The Deltans are conditioned to be averse to intellectual and artistic objects and made into docile and eager consumers. As children,...
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