2. Please describe Bokanovsky's Process. Why does The Director call it the "major instrument of social stability?"
Bokanovskified egg will bud and divide
8 buds to 96 buds
Bud will grow into a perfect embryo
Series of arrested development: check the normal growth and then the egg buds
Responds by budding
"The major instruments of social stability:" The factory could have one egg and all the embryo's would bud from it. The stability of the factory would depend on the work being all done the same way.
3. Why did the doctor wish to keep the Epsilon "embryo below par?"
He lowers the oxygen and causes them to stay under par so that they do not bud and create more.
4. What does Mr. Foster mean when he says: "We condition them to thrive in heat...that is the secret of happiness of virtue - liking what you've got to do. All conditioning aims at that: making people like their unescapable social destiny."? How does this connect to what is happening in Rack 10?
The director means that they train the embryos to thrive and live in things that are miserable and unhappy so when they experience the real world, they will always be happy because they have been through worse and are able to tolerate it. This connects to what is happening in rack 10 because in rack 10 they are training the embryo's to tolerate lead, caustic soda and tar-chlorine so that they can work as the next generation chemical workers and not be unhappy with their lives.
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