Chapter X - Overall Analysis

During the beginning of this chapter, there is a lengthy description of what is going on in the entire Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre, where there is continuous 'buzzing' in the 'hive of industry'. Everyone was busy, and everything was in ordered motion.
There are descriptions of the spermatozoa furiously lashing into the eggs and expanding and dividing and bokanovskifying. Down in the basement, also known as the 'crimson darkness', there are foetuses growing or being poisoned based on rank. With a faint hum and rattle, newly unbottled babies are crying in 'horror and amazement'. Infants are being fed by pasteurized external secretion, and the little boys and girls are listening unknowingly to the hypnopaedic lessons on hygiene and sociability while others participated in erotic play inside.
Everyone was busy, everything in ordered motion. Thus is the stability of the society.

I like how we are brought back to the horrors of the society and how it works. The chronological order of an egg/sperm to a child participating in erotic play and hypnopaedic lessons recreates the horror and shock instinct as to when the reader first reads the beginning of the book. It is used quite usefully actually, as it allows the reader to review how the society works and how it will all connect with the rest of story.

Another literary device that Huxley uses quite often in this novel is onomatopoeia, such as when describing the Center in it's everyday business, "Buzz, buzz! The hive was humming, busily, joyfully", (X, 128). Onomatopoeia is probably used a lot because Huxley experienced a sense of blindness in his life, which quite possibly heightened his other senses which allowed him to create a whole new way to write with more emotion and unique style. I think that his blindness helped him to write in a more free-style way which is quite possibly why I enjoyed this book so much - it is so unique.

One of the most important quotes in this chapter is when the Director and Henry Foster are discussing the 'heinous' actions of Bernard Marx, "The greater a man's talents, the greater his power to lead astray. It is better than one should suffer than that many should be corrupted....no offence is so heinous as unorthodoxy of behaviour...Unorthodoxy threatens more than the life of a mere individual; it strikes at Society itself" (X, 128-129), which is entirely true, even in such a harsh context as how the Director puts it.
One who obtains greatness can use it however they want, but in Bernard's case he is different and does not know what to do with it. Instead of embracing it and using it, he shuns it and hides from it. He does not want to stick out, he wants to become yet another robotic clone in the society. Since Bernard is so different, his behaviour is unorthodox.
What really makes me ponder is the fact that 'it is better that one should suffer than that many should be corrupted'. I've always thought about how in the movies, if one person has a choice to save the world or save a love one - how do they choose? Why must one suffer in order to make everyone else happy? It happens a lot in real life, and it is unjust. Yes yes, life is not fair. However, in such a 'perfect' society such as one in the novel, shouldn't one not have to suffer anymore?
No matter how 'perfect' and 'stable' a society may be, there is always conflict. There is always loneliness, depression, pain. Yin and yang - happiness cannot survive without some sort of sadness somewhere. Yet...only one person has to suffer so that the rest may live in 'happiness'.