In the New World of Aldous Huxley's dystopia, science
absolutely dictates the lives of the people. From their "birth" in the Hatchery where
they are cast as an Alpha, Beta, Delta, Gamma, or Episolon, they are conditioned by
hypnopoedia to like and dislike certain things and certain castes, to be satisfied with
what they are, to believe that "everyone belongs to everyone else" and to revile
monogomy, to be repulsed by natural births, to detest nature, to desire to consume. Most
of the women are designed to be Free Martins, who are infertile, while others must take
certain drugs to control their urges to become
mothers.
The Solidarity Service with its orgy-porgy
replaces religious ceremony; the "feelies" satisfy other urges;
soma washes away any discontent from their minds. Science also
prevents them from aging, but when they do die, their bodies become part of phosphorous
recovery and are recycled by science as gases.
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