Community Stability Identity
Imagine living in a society where there are no problems and everything is perfect, but how can you live in a society with no individuality or freedom. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley reveals a dystopian and utopian society in the future where everything is perfect: stability and happiness. People in the World State live in a totalitarian regime, they are brainwashed and conditioned to follow certain rules to keep their society stable. To keep everyone from being emotional, they are conditioned to take “the perfect drug” called soma; it stimulates them to be happy. Huxley shows a government that controls everyone to be the same, but it creates the loss of individuality and freedom in each person. Nothing in a society is ever perfect. Civilization in the society of Brave New World is different from our own society. “Community, Identity, Stability” is the World State’s motto. Their goal is to ensure happiness and stability in their society. The utopian society takes place in the year A.F 632; A.F stands for “After Ford”. Although religion doesn’t exist, they only praise one man, Henry Ford (they also call him “Our Ford”). He was the one who invented the first assembly line. It was the starting point in the World State’s society. The World State is in dystopia; a society they can achieve when everyone is happy. At the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre infants are raised from embryos. Bokanovsky's process is one of the major instruments of social stability. It gives the government control of the number of people in the world and in each caste. Bokanovsky process is a method of human reproduction in which a fertilized egg is split into identical genetic copies. Infants are then divided based on their intelligence level. The caste systems separated them into the Greek alphabet: Alpha, Beta, Delta, Gamma and Epsilon. Alphas are the highest and smartest class and the Epsilon’s are the lowest class. Little kids are also conditioned to do “sexual play”,