The facility conditions toddlers through two techniques: Neo-Pavlovian, which use electric shocks and sirens, and Hypnopaedia, which plays ethical phrases on repeat when children are sleeping. Each child is raised without their biological parents. An assembly line creates embryos babies growing inside bottles are segregated into castes. The book opens with Tomakin, an Alpha and the Director of the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre, giving a group of young students a tour of the facilities.
The society discourages familial bonding and the consumption of goods becomes a replacement for religion. Members of every caste receive a narcotic called Soma to prevent them from feeling pain or unhappiness. The ruling elite, called Alphas and Betas act as scientists, politicians, and other top minds Gammas, Deltas, and Epsilons are the lower castes and represent the world's industrial workers. World Controllers run the society through a five-tiered caste system. The story envisions a world that, in its quest for social stability and peace, is in fact devoid of emotion, love, beauty, and true relationships. Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley, is a dystopian novel set several centuries in the future.
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