Chapter 2

Characters in the chapter:

Director, students

Short report:

In the second chapter the director takes the students to a very large room to show them how the “Neo-Pavlovian Conditioning” works.

The director shows an example of conditioning, in fact the experiment starts when a worker brings some children into the conditioning room, and the director shows them some books and flowers very colourful and beautiful; they feel attracted by them, but in the moment that the children take these books they are electrified. After this shock they will accociate it all with something bad, negative or painful.Later the director explains the students how the “ Hypnopoedia” works, and how they train the children in they sleep.

. This is the method for controlling “their head” for all their life. The chapter highlights the uselessness of family and in general it shows it negatively.

Themes presented:

The conditioning of the mind, the uselessness of the family and the hypnopoedia: that is learning during the sleep.

Some relevant quotations:

“Roses and electric shocks ,the kaki, of deltas and a whiff of asofoetidia. Wedded indissolubly , before the child can speak- page 19: “ -We condition the masses to hate the country- , concluded the director”

- page 24: “ Alpha children wear grey. They work much harder than we do, ...! They are too stupid to be able ... “

what the chapter represent in the whole story:

this is an important chapter because represents the preliminary stages of the full story

Personal comments:

In my opinion this conditioning eliminates a basic concept that is conscience and consequently freedom, because without mental freedom there can’t exist arts, poetry, and in general the fruits of the creative genius and the world is less coloured in the positive sense.

MARCO & TAYNA