Symbol/Idea:
“‘Reducing the number of revolutions per minute," Mr. Foster explained. "The surrogate goes round slower; therefore passes through the lung at longer intervals; therefore gives the embryo less oxygen. Nothing like oxygen-shortage for keeping an embryo below par." Again he rubbed his hands.” (24)
Mr. Foster seems unusually excited about altering the normal life cycle. This is a symbol of from earlier in the book that is now starting to shed light for more actions of the World State.
“The two low work-tables faced one another; between them crawled the conveyor with its load of separate parts; forty-seven blonde heads were confronted with forty seven brown ones. ...” (160)
John is disgusted by the machine like production of humans and this reassures that the hatred for the World State is only growing.
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