A Brave New World Quote Analysis

Society has always been divided into social classes. Each class has a valuable aspect that contributes and makes our society run smooth. As much as we try to make our society reflect a Utopian world, there will always be a struggle within the caste system as Karl Marx mentions in his philosophy Marxism. In the book Brave New World written by Aldous Huxley in 1946, Huxley portrays a Utopian world but one that show a lot of problems even in a so called “perfect world”. Each social class will eventually have to struggle no what, in a Utopian world or not.
Huxley explains that there is no stability if individuals lack stability. Huxley writes, “No stability without individual stability.”(Huxley 42). In Brave New World, stability means control

and control means power. In order for stability to be possible in a Utopian world individuals must give up their own identity and sense of community. If people are getting drugged and really are not being their selves then I believe that the society they live in is not perfect but corrupt. They are giving away their freedom and the concept freedom is very essential to humanity. This so called “perfect world” comes with a great price to pay.
Donald Hall in the text Literary and Cultural Theory, writes about in any given society, there will always be a class struggle.

Hall states, “Class struggle is necessary and inevitable”(Hall 77). I agree with Hall because in any given conditions in society, people will always have questions because that is human nature, people will eventually challenge the status quo. For example, Huxley explains, “often in the past he had understood what it would be like to be subjected (soma-less) and with nothing.”(Huxley 103). In this sentence, I believe Huxley is referring to Bernard because he somehow senses that here is something wrong in the society he lives in. Authorities saw this and try to oppress him by trying to give him heavier doses of soma to keep him happy in the society. The lower classes know that change can start with only one person standing up for what they believe

in.
People in this book are being conditioned to hate books and flowers to keep the caste system in balance. Huxley writes, “We don’t encourage them to indulge in any solitary amusements.”(Huxley 163). In this society kids are not encouraged to read books because if they start reading then they are acquiring knowledge which opens opportunities to a better job. Of course in this Utopian society kids are being controlled to hate books so that they don’t become more intelligent. This is why I believe this society is corrupt. People should be able to change their social class by perusing a higher education. Hall explains, “…vague terms such as “upper class” and “lower class” have boundaries that are open to debate…”(Hall 74). Hall is saying that that social class can and should change. There is no limit to what a person can achieve. Goals are set and people make an effort to try and meet these goals that they have set for themselves.
Higher classes have always followed traditional ways of doing things. For example in the old times, the bourgeoisie exploit their workers in labor because they simply do not matter to social. In fact they are wrong about that because the workers (proletariat class) are the back bone of our society. Huxley expresses, “ Not philosophers but fretsawyers and stamp collectors compose the back bone of society.”(Huxley 4). Hall further explains, “… the working class, who sell their labor and bodies but control none of the institutions or structures that generate the great wealth of the bourgeoisie.”(Hall 74). In this Utopian society, the “lower classes” are still not given the credit they deserve and will not get the chance to because they are always drugged and seem to be happy with their job that has been given to them not by choice of their own. They cannot write their own destiny because they have already been predestined since they were sperm cells.
According to the website, , society on its own creates social classes that help production or the economy. The website states, “Each society created a ruling class and a subordinate class as a result of their mode of production or economy.” (infed.org). In the society that Huxley portrays, it seems that production is what sets the division of the classes. Every day workers in this Utopian world, report to their jobs everyday and do the same thing yet they do not complain about being treated like robots. It’s all about production in this society there is no time for family or time to relax because these ideas do not exist. People are not to have families, feelings, or enjoy the beauty that the world offers. Huxley writes, “We condition the masses to hate the country.” People cannot be free which is inhumane.
In Marxism, the idea is of Materialism is a big concept. The same concept is applied in this Utopian world, where every individual take soma, a drug. This is an other aspect that contributes to the people being oppressed. Besides being mind controlled, loveless, and false happiness. According the website, < isj.org.uk/more-than-opium-marxism-and-religion/>, “The material world does not derive, in the first instance, from human thought; human thought derives from the material world.”(isj.org.uk). Humans are made to believe that everything is okay and doing fine but in reality are being controlled. The material part is their job, as long as they are occupied they are happy but that is just false happiness.
In Brave New World control is everything.

For example Huxley explains, “…ninety-six human beings grow where only one grew before. Progress.”(Huxley 6). In order for control, they started making clones for this “Bokanovsky Process” where out of one embryo they made ninety-six copies of one person were made. People are already being mind control, now they are being cloned, is this where our society today is going? Humanity is being stripped from us quicker than we think. In the website, < http://huxley.net/ >, expresses, “Individuality is suppressed. Intellectual excitement and discovery have been abolished.”(huxley.net). Since these clones are being conditioned to hate things that are able to help lower classes like the epsilons. It seems that a perfect world cannot be reach without a social class being oppressed. No individual can ever be creative or unique in their own way because society has accepted the idea that they are powerless, Huxley writes, “In so far as it recognized him as important, the order of things was good”(Huxley 157). In the lower classes’ perspective, they cannot rebel or challenge the status quo but instead they are afraid. Lower classes have more power than they believe. If they would unite and stand up for

themselves.
Scientific advancement might actually lead to what Huxley writes in Brave New World. As Hall writes, “…certain material realities help determine the quality of our lives and the opportunities available to us.”(Hall 76). Scientist will continually try to find a way to make a “perfect society” but the reason is because they think that the power to make that into reality is with scientific materials. Materials are what control our society today even more and more every day. The following passage explains, “Mass production demanded the shift.”(Huxley 228).