"'And "parent"?' questioned the D.H.C." (23). This quote makes me thing about 1984 by George Orwell. In this book, people don't have parents either, and there are no families. What I don't understand yet about Huxley's version of the family is when it began, or ended is a better term. Were the boys who are walking with the D.H.C. conditioned in the same way the babies in the nursery are? Was the D.H.C. conditioned this way too? In 1984, Orwell makes in obvious that this form of government and lifestyle had been around for a while. Another similarity between the 1984 and Brave New World seems to be the omnipotent figure-Big Brother and Our Ford, respectively. What I am most curious about, however, is if the "brain-washing system" per say, in BNW is any better or advanced than 1984's version. Winston in 1984 obviously broke the system, then was broken himself, so I am curious to see who will be that person in this work, or even if there will be that sort of figure.