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?