I decided to read Brave New World first because it interested me more. At first it was pretty confusing, but as I read more and more I became more fascinated. Characters were described with weird traits such as when Lenina was described with "purple eyes" and "a row of coral teeth"(16). I was a little confused as to why she had these abnormal features but later found out that everybody had different features. I was also confused by the racks and metres. I'm guessing that's how they identify where the embryos are. I also noticed that certain groups of children were trained to like and dislike certain things. For example, when babies were electrocuted when they showed interest in flowers and books. Everything those workers did to those children were for a certain reason; so the government could profit from them. It makes me wonder if governments do something similar to benefit from its people.
-Eileen Hernandez
I support your opinion about the beginning of Brave New World can be queer and confusing in this sci-fi novel. The Bokanovsky Process was rather disturbing yet clever with the ninety-six identical twins assigned roles to identical machinery. Civilians like Lenina came from artificial embryos, so their features are divergent from everyone else. Eight-month-old babies are disciplined in the most crucial method possible of brainwashing, exploding and electrocuting them to avoid books and flowers. Furthermore, brainwashing the babies to prevent the curiosity of knowledge in books and the beauty of nature by increasing fear; to develop the continuation of their superior political world. The knowledge of books inspires passion and freedom which symbolizes a threat to their artificial society. Nature was also considered a threat to their society because if people are fond of nature, the increase of building factories and machinery will decrease in developing their oblivious world. There are governments with concerning intentions that civilians are oblivious to whether or not it’s for the greater good, however, to civilians the intentions are not completely exposed, but still, consider those intentions as a benefit to their society.
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I agree, the government was quite clever to have tormented the babies to books and flowers as a negative influence. I found it interesting how they did such actions to them at a young age since when were babies were not aware of our surroundings. When they made them feel pain, it made the babies realize how painful and unpleasant they really are. Therefore, with this action being done and the babies putting the puzzle together, they'll register that those objects are indeed dissenting to their life.
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