Chapter Two

To begin with, this chapter was a little unsettling. In the first chapter I learned that the society of the people of this book is based on the breeding of people and that those people have a chosen life based on their capabilities. Not only are the lives of these people chosen, but they are conditioned into what they will think and how they will act. Through methods such electric shock, and hypnopaedia ( the children will hear a voice tell them the thoughts that they should have while they are sleeping). The way in which the author described the way that the children are conditioned through shock horrified me. To make babies hate certain kinds of flowers the children were shown these flowers which at first made them happy because like any child, they thought the flowers were pretty and tried to move closer to them. Then a loud horrible loud noise went off which made the babies begin to scream, and then the floor to which they were on was electrified sending an electric current through there bodies. As the babies are whimpering the scientists show no remorse and act as if it is perfectly normal to harm them. From this electric shock they babies will learn to hate the flowers that were presented to them, that is after the process of electric shock is repeated frequently so that the idea is burned into their mind.
The morals and values of the society in this novel disgust me. To live life in this book would be like living in a glass box but not even know that there was a better life outside because it was all you knew. To be in this world, would be a life without love, without thought or emotion. A life without beauty, curiosity, or uniqueness. What is there to live for without such things?

Thoughts After Chapter One

As of right now having read the first chapter of "Brave New World", I can begin to understand as to why some groups of people may find it offensive. Within the first few pages, the idea of growing generations of humans is introduced by using fertilization methods. These humans zre to be used for different purposes, but the message i recieved was that people are to be grown and conditioned to do certain tasks until they are no longer useful and they will be replaced. Now the idea of "test tube babies" will probably freak out alot of conservative idealistic people in the sense that it is wrong and perverted. Furthermore I wouldn't be surprised if the fact that these "test tube babies" are being conditioned to do the work of others will severely bother some people because these children will have no control over their lives because they will never have known anything else but what they have been conditioned and told to do. The idea of taking away the right of living a free life must horrofy some people. Although these are all interesting and argueable points, for me so far it's only a story with strange society and nothing i wouldn't allow others to read.
In this chapter it is also made clear that not only do they breed these people for what they will be doing their entire life, they breed them by the thousands. Now if this were to be happening in our society, I would feel a little scared as to what would become of the world. If scientists could breed people to do all the jobs in the world, then what would become of the natural born people? I don't even want to think about how I would compare with someone who was made to do my job. It seems like in the society in this novel is predetermined by those in control of the breeding of society.