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Conformity In Brave New World

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Although high school curricula exposes students to numerous novels of high literary merit, some especially important ones, such as Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, still fall through the cracks. Reading and analyzing Brave New World is critical to teaching students, specifically those in Depaul’s Honors Program, the importance of free thought and the abstract development of human identity. One of the biggest themes in Aldous Huxley’s novel explores conformity through the elaborate construction of a “utopian” society, the World State, in which human emotion is scientifically controlled in order to maintain social order. In this utopia, the passion of human emotion and conflicts are to blame for society’s problems and therefore are eliminated

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