Literary Luminary: "Everyone belongs to everyone else." (37)
- The Cast System: The cast system is a connection to the real world. In the book it is where everyone is bred to be a certain way according to his/her caste. They are made to live and work within their caste and go nowhere above or below it.
- Genetic modification: Modifying the genes of something to manipulate the outcome and make it better or worse than it was before.
- Cloning: In the book they clone people so that there are many of the same kind. They do this so that there are more people to do work.
Summarizer:
Key Points:
- The Bokanovsky Group of people in the society are all exactly alike (identical twins) and created from the same female embryo. Some bokanovskified eggs may produce up to 96 individuals. Everything is used within the community; eggs from the female body are removed to create dozens more offspring than the human capacity could sustain and deceased people are cremated to create fuel for factories and fertilizer for growing crops (63).
- Electronic sleep teaching (or hypnopaedia) and physical discipline is used during the childhood of each individual to teach the children in large masses and to condition them to love and hate certain activities or objects. (Examples on page 16-17 and 22-23) Ideas which are created in every individual’s mind are described as “equality”, conformity and the idea that “everybody is happy now” and “everyone belongs to everyone”.
- Uniformity is very relevant in this society however one who is different from his class or status is considered as abnormal (an example may be as Bernard had been described on page 39.)
- Despite the outlaw of religion and culture, the society created its own religion such as when Bernard attended a board meeting.
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