Question

Why does the hatchery purposely keep some embryos from developing high intelligence? in brave new world?

Answer 1

The Brave New World is a novel written by Aldous Huxley, a popular English author.

In this story, the 'Hatchery' refers to a place where human reproduction takes place in test tubes and new children are manufactured from the incubators. The embryos are given appropriate hormones, chemicals, and are incubated and grown in specific conditions so that they grow into people of specific castes.

The hatchery kept away a few embryos from being able to develop high intelligence so that they grow up into humans who are capable of doing jobs that need less intelligence. They needed them to be capable of doing their jobs but not so intelligent that they might question the authorities or rebel against them.