We feel that the first three chapters are very realistic, but improbable. The world wouldn't allow a society like the one in the book to form. Conditioning people plants ideas in their heads, and doesn't always work. People ultimately have control over their own lives. Although our world is very scientific and testing ways to clone both people and animals, we feel that too many people would rebel against it. This imaginary world could not exist in today's society.
In chapter one, we see the scientific aspect of the society they are in. This is one of the only parts we feel could be probable. All of the scientific methods of cloning, such as Bokanovsky's Process are explained. Technology is advancing so fast now days that a lot of the technical things explained in the book could be a possibility in the not too distant future. All of the technical, scientific explaining also make this chapter a little hard to follow. The book jumps right into a lot of information and explanation of the cloning process before actually describing how the society works and how it is run.
In chapter two, we see mostly the same thing as chapter one. The chapter goes on explaining more of the scientific aspect of cloning and the use of sleep-teaching (hypnopaedia). They use this to condition all of society to think and do things a certain way. Now, we are getting into the part of the book that is more unrealistic. Sleep-teaching has been tried by people and has not been proved to work or not. Perhaps in the future, we will be able to make it work, but it still could not be used to control an entire society. Even if people could be influenced, many of them would not allow it because they want to be different.
Chapter three was probably the most difficult chapter to understand, so far. This aspect got more into the aspect of how the society runs. This is where we, as a group, think that the book becomes more impossible. We feel that life is not something that can be controlled to the extent that it is in the book's society. In this chapter, the Director and the Controller continue to describe the past and why it was so bad. Lenina is having a conversation with the Assistant Predestinator, while Bernard Marx seems to be talking to himself. Toward the end of the chapter, all of these conversations are intertwined with one another and going at the same time. The author bounces from one conversation to another without any thought. This is where we consider the chapter to get a bit confusing because it is very hard to follow.
Throughout the introduction of this book, our group agreed on two major points about this society. One is that the scientific aspect is possible because science is advancing so fast that no one knows when this will become a reality. It could be a lot sooner than we think. The other point is that the way society runs is unrealistic. It is really unconceivable to think that someone can control life and the living process. No matter how set these procedures are, not everyone will be happy. This will causes changes to be made which will allow life to break free of its harnesses no matter what the conditions.
