"I mean, when a child asks you how a helicopter works or who made the world - well, what are you to answer if you're a Beta and have always worked in the Fertilizing Room?" (Huxley, 122).
How often do we allow our surroundings define who we are and what we know. Here, Linda claims that she doesn't know how to answer her son's questions because, as the saying goes, they are "out of her pay grade." Adaptability is the essence of human innovation and survival. The creators of the utopia have reduced their citizens to not needing the skill of adaptability, as proven by Linda's odd experience getting left on the reserve to fend for herself, and pregnant at that. Limits are supposedly drawn where we set them and while that may not be totally true in our society, our freedom and democratic government ensure it to a great degree. But, in Bernard's world, people's limits are pre-determined through manipulation of embryo development and subconscious conditioning.
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