Individuality In Brave New World

What is the purpose of life if you can't think and act like yourself? Aldous Huxley answers this question in his future based novel Brave New World. Set in a place known as the World State, this society is run by using a class system to grade or place people in. One's fate is determined by the Director and other leaders of the New World by sleep teaching kids before they are truly born, the amount of teaching given chooses your class placement for life. This society only works with drugs called soma to control people's thoughts and to stop the questioning of the society. The people that live in this society show the theme of how important individuality is to each and every person.

The first and main reason why individuality is key to a person's life is because it allows them to think and act like themselves. If no one is allowed to think for themselves then “Everyone belongs to everyone else”(Huxley43). There would be very little reason to live with joy throughout a day because everyone thinks and acts the same which only means that you are only part of the big group.

Lenina stresses that “A gram is always better that a damn”(Huxley90) because she has been brainwashed to think that way unlike Bernard who thinks differently than anyone else. Bernard can see the world clearly and realizes what is going on because he is able to hold back from taking soma. Lenina isn't able to think for herself due to the sleep teaching and the wealthy amount of soma she takes. Everyone wants to be there own individual in reality, but it is very hard to achieve when you are thought of and judged depending on your class placement. The ones in the lower classes are seen as weird or dumb when its only based on the luck of how much oxygen and sleep teaching the Director gives you. If soma didn't exist, there clearly would be a rebellion and future change for