Conflicts In Brave New World Essay

Brave New World​ is a novel written by Aldous Huxley. This novel features a government trying to make a perfect Utopian society. In trying to do this, they actually created a lot of dystopian anarchy. Throughout the novel there are many different types of conflicts that pop up along with many different issues. Some of these issues are the budding process, the soma pill, and the caste system.
In the beginning of the novel it tells us about the budding process. This is an example of Man vs. God. The reason why it's Man vs. God is that they make test tube babies rather than natural birth. This is against the Bible's views on natural birth being a god given right. The reason this is such a big issue is that it takes away from everyone's uniqueness. Everybody is the same in their social order, same jobs, same education, same associations, same everything. Like stated before, they mass produce people in test tubes to since natural birth is frowned upon. They have a process called the Bokanovsky process. It were they add alcohol to certain test tubes to make them shorter and dumber to work worse jobs. It's just a giant mess in the government trying to

make a perfect Utopian society.

Another conflict that is constantly going on throughout the novel is the Soma pill.

This is an example of Man vs. God. The reason for this is because the pill is made (a.k.a. technology). Soma is a drug that makes people “neutral” in the sense that they're not happy or sad. The government make it mandatory for people to take the pill because it would take away from the perfect Utopian society. People would be sad and therefore not a Utopian society. Also people who are fed up could try to overthrow the government and that's a problem. A character named Bernard doesn't take the Soma pill. He has a free mind and does what he wants. He is the “good guy” in the novel. He doesn't give in to the oppressive government. This is why the DHC threatens to get rid of him. He realized that no one was truly happy and it was fake

happiness.
Perhaps the biggest issue throughout the novel is the caste system they have in place. This is an example of Man vs. Society. The caste system is broken down into 5 “levels”; Alpha, Beta, Delta, Gamma, and Epsilon. Each one of these have their own characteristics such as clothing and jobs. Each level knows their place and never steps out of it. Bernard however is not respected by any really. He is an Alpha plus that supposedly had alcohol put in his test tube so he is shorter than the rest. He is viewed as inferior and lost respect of all. The jobs are assigned according to level, the best for Alphas and the worst for Epsilon. They can't switch even if they don't like it cause the government made them for that specific task. It was forced on them from the beginning.
As you can see throughout the novel there are many examples of conflicts going on. Some are smaller than others. The major ones are; the budding process, the Soma pill, and the caste system.