Post #10: Why does the fertilizing room look so cold, when it is actually hot inside? What goes on there and why does Huxley open with this scene?

In Aldous Huxley Brave New World, the fertilizing room is given a cold feeling so you know it is a factory and not a business building or a household. You automatically get that cold feeling with the statement "Wintriness responded to wintriness. The overalls of the workers were white, their hands gloved with a pale corpse colored rubber. The light was frozen, dead, a ghost" (Huxley 4) but you know the room is hot with the quote "the tropical heat of the room itself" (Huxley 3).

This gives the reader an uneasy feeling about the place, giving them a visual of the workers in white uniforms and gloves and the description of the cold lighting.

It opens with this scene so the reader knows that something odd is being done in this factory. Soon you find out that they are making humans in tubes, which is very eerie, so the fact that they open with that cold feeling of a laboratory also gives you the idea that affection is not really a strong thing in this book. That feeling of cold represents the feelings people have for each other in this society.