After the so-called Nine Years' War, the world suffered through an economic crisis. War finally ensued, culminating in the use of anthrax bombs. The first world reformers tried to change things, but the old governments ignored them. This existence led to dirty homes with families where emotions got in the way of happiness and stability. Before the Utopian world order was established, he explains that people used to be parents and have children through live birth. The World Controller of Western Europe, His Fordship Mustapha Mond appears and gives the students a lecture about the way things used to be.

Hypnopaedia teaches babies and children while they are asleep by playing ethical phrases numerous times so that the phrases will become a subconscious part of each person. When the babies approach the books or the roses, alarms and sirens sound, and the babies receive a small electric shock, which frightens them so that when they confront the same items for a second time, they recoil in fear. In Neo-Pavlovian conditioning, babies enter a room filled with books and roses. After the babies are decanted from their bottles, they are conditioned through Neo-Pavlovian conditioning and hypnopaedia. The students view the various techniques for producing more babies and watch as the process segregates babies into various castes. An assembly line creates embryos using the latest advancements in science. Pre- and post-natal conditioning further ensures social stability.īrave New World opens with the Director of the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre giving a group of young students a tour of the facilities. A drug called soma ensures that no one ever feels pain or remains unhappy, and members of every caste receive rations of the drug. Alphas and Betas are at the top of the system and act as the scientists, politicians, and other top minds, while Gammas, Deltas, and Epsilons are at the bottom and represent the world's industrial working class. World Controllers rule the world and ensure the stability of society through the creation of a five-tiered caste system. stands for the year of Ford, named for the great industrialist Henry Ford who refined mass production techniques for automobiles. 632, approximately seven centuries after the twentieth century.

Cliff notes a brave new world