Morals In Brave New World

Morals are a system of values and a person’s beliefs on what is right or wrong. They often vary from person to person, but people in similar societies have similar morals. In the novel, Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, each character has different morals but some characters have more similar morals than others because they live in the same society. In the novel there are two different societies, the New World and the Savage Reservation. The New World people’s morals come from hypnopaedia and what their government trains them to value. The Reservation people are free to form their own morals. Morals are not only determined by society, but the different aspects of society like, government rules, self interests, culture, and religion. In the New World, the

In the beginning of the novel, the director explains what hypnopaedia is. He states, “Moral education, which ought never, in any circumstance, to be rational”(Huxley 26). Hypnopaedia is used to teach morals to children. The New World citizens obtain their morals from this teaching they do not have the ability to decide for themselves what is morally right or wrong. In the reservation morals are significantly different than the New World. When Bernardo first meets Linda and John, Linda tells him how different the Reservation is, She says, “‘And look at these clothes...And you're supposed to mend it if it gets torn.... Mending's anti-social. But it's all different here. It's like living with lunatics’”(Huxley 120). Linda has a hard time adapting to the morals of the Reservation, she was taught by hypnopaedia. In the New World people are taught to buy new clothes, mending is wrong where she is from. The reservation citizen’s morals are determined by their government rules, they are supposed to mend. In the article, “The Government Should Legislate Morality”, the author David Pendleton describes the government's role in creating morals, “The law cannot force people to make good choices. It