"The nurses obeyed; but at the approach of the roses, at the mere sight of those gaily-coloured images of pussy and cock-a-doodle-doo and baa-baa black sheep, the infants shrank away in horror; the volme of their howling suddenly increased." (pg. 21)
Huxley reveals the power of the Director in this chapter as well as the processes involved in programming people to like certain things. The Director is implied as having absolute control over people where he works. The nurses always obey his commands swiftly and silently. In this chapter, the Director shows how they train people, starting as babies, to grow to like or dislike certain things. In the quote, Huxley uses onomatopoeia to convey the images of harmless animals and flowers that children would most certainly love. However, he contrasts these happy images with the horror and fear the children have at the sight of these images. Due to the programming efforts, the babies now associate those images with pain and loud, frightening noises. What I do not understand is how the Director, nurses, or students, don't see anything wrong with hurting children pyschologically. I mean someone has to see something wrong with it. I wonder how Huxley could address this if he even addresses it at all.
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