In Brave New World, the government is able to control the thoughts and actions of the people, and thus is holding almost absolute power. People living in the World State have been stripped of their individualism, their passion and their desires.
"Community, Identity, Stability" is the motto of the World State. The motto is similar in form, yet contradictory in meaning, to the motto of the French Revolution: "Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity."
The motto lists the Utopia's primary goals and enforcing these morals is how this government maintains its power.
Community is a result of stability and identity. Identity is achieved by teaching everyone to conform, so that someone who has or feels individualism is made to feel different and like an outcast (ex. Bernard).
Huxley uses the character John, an uncivilized man, born to a civilized woman, to contrast the conditioned individuals with someone who has never been the recipient of conditioning. He creates a juxtaposition by placing this character in the middle of a conditioned society; demonstrating how easily humanity can become fixed upon something new and alien. When John accompanies Bernard to London, he is viewed as both fascinating and foreign, because of his tendency to form passionate and monogamous attachments.
The main character Bernard is different from the others; what makes him different is his awareness of his own individuality.This oppressive dystopia strongly discourages and tries to prevent individuality. They do this not only by genetically engineering embryos, encouraging use of drugs and polyamorous relations but also by banning certain literature, monogamous relationships and viviparous births.
Old things like Shakespeare are prohibited because the economy is dependent on people's desire for new things. People also can't understand and "write tragedies without social instability" (Chapter 16).
Stability, the third goal, means minimizing conflict, risk, and change. The world controllers claim that people who are exactly the same are less likely to fall into conflict, so stability is dependent on genetically identical "individuals". The government also uses sleep-learning and conditioning as a form of psychological manipulation to instill stability and happiness.
You could consider the people in the World State as prisoners of an oppressive regime. But, Brave New World largely defines freedom through the structures that prevent freedom.
Huxley is ultimately asking his reader to consider this question: whats more important, happiness or freedom?
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"Community, Identity, Stability" is the motto of the World State. The motto is similar in form, yet contradictory in meaning, to the motto of the French Revolution: "Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity."
The motto lists the Utopia's primary goals and enforcing these morals is how this government maintains its power.
Community is a result of stability and identity. Identity is achieved by teaching everyone to conform, so that someone who has or feels individualism is made to feel different and like an outcast (ex. Bernard).
Huxley uses the character John, an uncivilized man, born to a civilized woman, to contrast the conditioned individuals with someone who has never been the recipient of conditioning. He creates a juxtaposition by placing this character in the middle of a conditioned society; demonstrating how easily humanity can become fixed upon something new and alien. When John accompanies Bernard to London, he is viewed as both fascinating and foreign, because of his tendency to form passionate and monogamous attachments.
The main character Bernard is different from the others; what makes him different is his awareness of his own individuality.This oppressive dystopia strongly discourages and tries to prevent individuality. They do this not only by genetically engineering embryos, encouraging use of drugs and polyamorous relations but also by banning certain literature, monogamous relationships and viviparous births.
Old things like Shakespeare are prohibited because the economy is dependent on people's desire for new things. People also can't understand and "write tragedies without social instability" (Chapter 16).
Stability, the third goal, means minimizing conflict, risk, and change. The world controllers claim that people who are exactly the same are less likely to fall into conflict, so stability is dependent on genetically identical "individuals". The government also uses sleep-learning and conditioning as a form of psychological manipulation to instill stability and happiness.
You could consider the people in the World State as prisoners of an oppressive regime. But, Brave New World largely defines freedom through the structures that prevent freedom.
Huxley is ultimately asking his reader to consider this question: whats more important, happiness or freedom?
Answer at the side! ->