Brave New Word Chapter 1 Notes

"A SQUAT grey building of only thirty-four stories."
- Making us think that this building is short and fat while the other buildings are tall and strong.

"in a shield, the World State's motto, COMMUNITY, IDENTITY, STABILITY"
- This place has protection of what we are facing in this world.

"a harsh thin light glared through the windows"
- This used tone, or image of what is happening in the story.

"soliloquizing"
- This means that a person is being focus on what they are doing.

"Not philosophers but fret-sawyers and stamp collectors compose the backbone of society."
- He thinks that thinkers are not important, but they use their brain to see whats happening in the story.

"A. F. 632"
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"the Alphas and Betas remained until definitely bottled; while the Gammas, Deltas and Epsilons"
- They are going to play a role of what is happening in society.

"But one of the students was fool enough to ask where the advantage lay. "My good boy!" The Director wheeled sharply round on him. "Can't you see? Can't you see?" He raised a hand; his expression was solemn. "Bokanovsky's Process is one of the major instruments of social stability!"
- This is a science fiction and this quote can make you feel embarrass and dumb around other people.

"decanted"
- This means that you are being used as a liquid, or chemical.

"They could make sure of at least a hundred and fifty mature eggs within two years. Fertilize and bokanovskify–in other words, multiply by seventy-two–and you get an average of nearly eleven thousand brothers and sisters in a hundred and fifty batches of identical twins, all within two years of the same age"
- This tell about the mass production of humans are creating about eleven thousand "twins" that are identical, but as individual which it continues to grow and grow.

"freemartins"
- This means about the female fetsus.

"caste"
- This means the class, rank, or level.

"The surrogate goes round slower; therefore passes through the lung at longer intervals; therefore gives the embryo less oxygen. Nothing like oxygen-shortage for keeping an embryo below par."
- This quote is telling us that fesuses are getting tested from their lungs and they called the female fetsus's embryos, too.

"Later on their minds would be made to endorse the judgment of their bodies. "We condition them to thrive on heat," concluded Mr. Foster. "Our colleagues upstairs will teach them to love it."
- They tested out the fetsus of their temperature heat

"Director sententiously, "that is the secret of happiness and virtue–liking what you've got to do. All conditioning aims at that: making people like their unescapable social destiny."
- The director excepts them as an unescapable social destiny.

"Oh, the usual typhoid and sleeping sickness." "Tropical workers start being inoculated at Metre 150," Mr. Foster explained to the students. "The embryos still have gills. We immunize the fish against the future man's diseases." Then, turning back to Lenina, "Ten to five on the roof this afternoon," he said, "as usual." "Charming," said the Director once more, and, with a final pat, moved away after the others."
- They introduce Lenina and she explains the sleeping sickness and the director finds it charming.