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Individuality In A Brave New World

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"Every one belongs to everyone else.” In a sense in this world, everyone is everyone else. All the fetal conditioning and hypnopaedic training molds each individual to play a certain part in the society, valuable only for the purpose of making the entire society run smoothly. In a world like this there is no individuality, in any way, because social stability means everything. The theme of “A Brave New World” is how science and technology affects people and what they believe. Bokanovsky's Process, which erases normal human development while promoting the production of dozens of identical eggs, purposefully deprives human beings of their unique, individual natures which makes the processes for controlling them unnecessary. They conform to society's …show more content…

They may say that in the technically and scientifically advanced society everyone conforms and follows the rules by taking drugs, having sex, using transportation, and ‘liking’ there work, however, those people aren't doing these things because they would normally want to; those people were conditioned to think and participate in that way. The citizens didn't grow up with the ability to form their own opinions, beliefs, and thoughts; the government controlled those parts of them from the day they started growing, before they were even born. John is an example of the imperfections in the government's system concerning science because if the World State wants a Utopia then they need to use all of their scientific advancements on everyone. John is what they call a ‘savage’ because his beliefs are what people in our world would see as normal, however, in Huxley's world these normal attributes are taboo. John hates the World State and eventually killed himself because of the pressures and torments of the government and the citizens of it. Since the leaders of this world Huxley created do not use technology and science to ‘advance’ everyone then there can not be a perfect society. The society will then turn into a dystopia because there are people that will not conform and they will rebel against the

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