These are referred to as “freemartins.” The treatments that fetuses undergo depends on their castes. Seventy percent of all female fetuses are sterilized. This includes shaking the bottle every time they move another few meters, in order to make the fetuses familiar with movement. The whole process is meant to mimic the conditions in a human womb. They are “decanted,” or born, on the final day. They stay on the conveyor belt for the gestation time of 267 days. Once fertilization occurs, embryos are put on a conveyor belt. Henry Foster and the Director continue in explaining the plant’s processes to the boys. He informs the attentive students that this specific factory’s record is over 16,000 siblings. Henry Foster is called over by the Director. Using Podsnap’s Technique, the average production rate is 11,000 sisters and brothers in 150 batches of identical twins. Using this method, hundreds of individuals, all related can be produced by using the sperm and ova of the same man and woman within two years. This technique hastens the process by which eggs ripen within a single ovary. The Director describes Podsnap’s Technique.

The process of cloning is a tool used by the World State in the implementation of its guiding motto: “Community, Identity, Stability.” This is because it produces clones that are already destined to carry out identical jobs at identical machines. The Director says that the Bokanovsky Process helps to ensure social stability. Embryos designated as Alpha and Beta do not go through this process, as it can weaken embryos. This is a process in which an egg is shocked in such a way that it splits into ninety-six embryos, all identical. The Gamma, Delta, and Epsilon are made to undergo something called the Bokanovsky Process. The five castes are the following: Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, and Epsilon. In the Hatchery, each fetus is destined for a specific caste in the World State. The ova is fertilized in artificial receptacles and then incubated in special bottles.

Rather, ova is produced by surgically removed ovaries. He says that living offspring are no longer produced by human beings. It also conditions human beings for their predestined futures in the World State. It is a factory for the production of human beings. This means 632 years “after Ford.” A group of students is being given a tour of the facility by the Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning. Brave New World opens in the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre.

Brave new world chapter 1 summary