Brave New World | Chapter 1 Summary and Analysis

New Characters
The Director: head of the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre

Henry Foster: a worker at the Centre

Lenina Crowne: a nurse at the Hatchery

Summary
The Director is escorting a group of new students through the Hatchery. He always wanted to give the initial educational tour himself. The students begin at the incubators, where human spermatozoa and ova are contained for the fertilization process. Each pair of sperm and egg will become either an Alpha- or a...

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