Social Stability In Brave New World

Aidan Navarro

Mr. Trussel

English 4

26 April 2017

Social Stability In the novel Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley, it highlights the importance of social stability to the World State. The motto of the World State is “Community, Identity, and Stability”, and they take drastic measures to ensure this motto remains intact. Thesis: Social stability isn’t worth the price of sacrificing individuality and emotions. In the opening chapter, the D.H.C introduces the technology that makes identical human beings. It is known as “Bokanovsky’s Process”, which stifles the normal human development and instead artificially produces human embryos, thus deliberately stripping the infants of their individuality. “One egg, one embryo, one adult-normality. But

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