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Brave New World Chapter 1 Summary

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Chapter 1 The book opens as people are getting a tour of a factory that appears to produces people in certain roles and then sends them out into the world. The tour guide goes into detail to explain how human beings do not reproduce anymore, it is instead all done by some very advanced sexaul-esque surgery. Each fetus is made to be in one of the five castes of society. they are Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta and Epsilon. The tour-guide/director person explains the Bokanovsky person to the students. The process is basically how some of the eggs created divide, and others do not. This is to keep social stability in the society. The guiding motto of this state is “Community, Identity, Stability.” The director guide guy explains podsnap’s method to

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