BNW Society and Caste System

In the BNW society, there are no longer any live births. Instead, at the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre, ovaries that have been surgically removed from a woman produce ova which are then fertilized with sperm in a laboratory. The fetuses are then incubated in special bottles. Each fetus is predestined to belong to one of the five castes: Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, or Epsilon. Those that are to become part of the Gamma, Delta, and Epsilon castes undergo the Bokanovsky Process. This causes the egg to divide into ninety-six embryos which then become ninety-six identical children. The Alpha and Beta fetuses do not undergo this process because it weakens the embryos. Once fertilized, the embryos are placed on a conveyor belt for the duration of the normal human gestation period. On the final day, they are born, which is referred to as 'decanted' in the BNW society. Depending on their caste, the fetuses are subject to certain treatments. The lower castes are deprived of oxygen and treated with alcohol so that their growth is stunted and their intelligence remains low. As they grow, the children must take part in the conditioning program in order to insure that they adopt the BNW society's values. Infants are taught to despise books and flowers in order to make them valuable consumers, older children are for

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the title of hero. He belongs to the Alpha caste, but because he is smaller in stature that the other Alphas, he feels out of place. Unlike his friend Helmholtz Watson, who is critical of the World State for more intellectual reasons, Bernard is unhappy within the BNW society because he feels that he does not fit in as a result of his inferior size. He brings John back to London with him, not because he hopes to demonstrate the bleakness of this new society, but because he believes it will better help his position among the other Alphas. He relishes his newfound popularity and partakes of all the activities that he had previously criticized. Indeed, Bernard is disgusted with the BNW society simply because he feels that he cannot truly be a part of it. Belonging in that society, however, is also his deepest desire. 5. In what specific ways was John 'the Savage' different from the other occupants of the reservation? Initially, John is marked as different by the other occupants of the reservation because of the way that his mother, Linda, behaves. She came to the reservation from the BNW society, and thus possessed the values of that world, including promiscuity. Linda attempted to live according to her conditi
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Approximate Word count = 1665
Approximate Pages = 7 (250 words per page)

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