Identity In Bokanovsky's Process

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This society craves identity, yet because of the Bokanovsky’s Process, one person will have 95 “twins”. They identify into 5 social classes, so that their identity is achieved by teaching everyone to conform. Anyone with flaws are made to feel like odd ones out. Early in the book, they compare the social classes to animals. “Consider a horse… mature at six, the elephant at ten. While at 13, a man is not yet sexually mature”. The society does this, yet neglects the unique identity that humans should have. Humans should be able to choose who they want to be, but instead, “all conditioning aims at that: making people like their unescapable social destiny” (16). They choose who they want you to be. Huxley has “satirizes the imminent spiritual

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