Passage page 6: “The enormous room on the ground floor faced towards the north. Cold for all the summer beyond the planes, for all the tropical heat of the room itself, a harsh thin light glared through the windows, hungrily seeking some draped lay figure, some pallid shape of academic goose-flesh, but finding only the glass and nickel and bleakly shinning porcelain overalls of the workers were white, their hands gloved with a pale corpse colored rubber. The light was frozen, dead, a ghost. Only from the yellow barrels of the microscopes did it borrow a certain rich and living substance, lying along the polished tubes like butter, streak after luscious streak in long recession down the work tables. [...] Rams wrapped in theremogene beget no lambs.”
Based on this passage and used as a common theme during the book the factory described in the story Brave New World is a cold isolated place. By describing the light as frozen and dead it demonstrates the stillness of the factory and how there isn’t a lot of freedom. The color white and the pale descriptions show how cold and powerful the workers are. How everything is programmed and set to be a certain way and do certain things. Every thing is controlled by society and has a specific order in which things occur. The difference between the people and the workers are substantial and described on color. The workers are described as cold colors such as whit and yellow. Consistent and Primary. The real humans however are described as pink and warm. They have real life to them and are able to function for themselves and think for themselves before they become involved with the factory. Based on just this first passage we can see the order of society portrayed in this novel.
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