Monday, March 4, 2013

BNW Foreword and CH. 1


  • foreword added 1946 when BNW reprinted
  • one regret is limiting Savage to only two kinds: that of the Utopia and the Indian village
  • sanity o insanity?
  • novel wan't designed to serve as some advancement in science but rather the science behind individuals themselves
  • how do humans use their knowledge of the world around them to have control over each other through means of science
  • people in the novel not human at all but subjects of experimentation and control 

  • time of opening 632 after ford
  • ford represents the industrial age of growth and expansion 
  • tour of factory to students (London) in which people are manufactures and prepared for their roles in the real world
  • no longer the act of natural reproduction is existent
  • been replaced by man made techniques of reproduction
  • formation of more subjects and preparing them for their roles in the World State is a fully developed and intricate process
  • they become clones "community, identity, and stability"
  • Podsnap Technique serves to catalyze the eggs creation process
  • thousands of humans are made from a single ovary 
  • chapter focused on explaining the details behind the madness that is genetically engineered humans
  • irrational methods such as oxygen deprivation and alcohol treatment are applied on the fetuses to shape them according to the caste they will inhabit
  • human creations have no shot at escaping the plans their creators have for them
  • Lenina works immunizing fetuses to suit their future tropic environment
  • Henry speaks of future fetus enhancements 

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