Infants are tempted with books and flowers and then shocked when they go to grasp them they are electrically shocked. This is a way of showing harm to what was once a pleasure and something that can be enjoyable. In a way it is like the idea of a child falling off a bed and learning the fact that they can get hurt if they go too close to the edge again. If the children are caused pain for what they wish then soon enough they will no longer find pleasure in it.
On the other hand, women are able to feel all of the symptoms of a pregnancy unnaturally. With thoughts like “my baby… the little hands, the hunger, and that unspeakable agonizing pleasure!” Women are no longer able to experience the feelings of carrying and birthing a baby due to the new manufacturing technique in the book, so those who desire such feelings are able to consume a “pregnancy substitute.” This makes pregnancy seems as though it could just be a joke that babies are not naturally born the way they used to be.
The people in A Brave New World are encouraged to be promiscuous and frequently change partners to keep the happiness going. “Impulse arrested spills over, and the flood is feeling, the flood is passion, the flood is even madness.” Having whatever one person wants cannot stand in the way for a person to be unhappy. So either you do what you have to do to make yourself happy or u tumble down and be unhappy.
In Brave New World, people are birthed to do their jobs and nothing else. There sole purpose is to fulfill the job that they were embedded to do. They must be “obedient men,” men who enjoy fulfilling their duties rather than acting against them. This quote justifies Ford’s thoughts on how life should be. Life should be manufactured and synthetic, not real. This way no one would be able to live unhappy and everyone would be the happiest person living.
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