Theme Of Individuality In Brave New World

Throughout the novel, Brave New World, Aldous Huxley portrays a utopian society where the whole world is peaceful and happy, but this is only because everyone is really too sedated with some to think otherwise. In Brave New World, Huxley suggests that what is valuable in human life is a balance between individuality and community by describing a world that relies on its citizens to lose their uniqueness as individual persons. Huxley uses the Bokanovsky twins and the conditioning processes to exhibit the lack of physical individuality and individual thought within the masses. Huxley also uses John to demonstrate how individuals still need the support and acceptance of his or her community. Huxley suggests that human beings are truly happy when

One prime example is the physical conditioning of the lower castes and the hypnopedia of all the children, and another example of lack of individuality are the clones in the lower castes that dress the same, look the same, and preform the same jobs the same (Huxley. 26-27). There is no room for personal thought or actions within the World State society. Mustapha Mond said to John, “they’re so conditioned that they practically can’t help behaving as they ought to behave. And if anything, should go wrong, there’s soma.” (Huxley. 220). The society does not give the people a chance to willing give up their distinctiveness for the sake of stability, peace or happiness. In Handbook of Cross-Cultural Psychology (Handbook), the authors talked about Jean-Jacques Rousseau 's Du Contrat Social which says that people give into submission for the “will of the many” (Berry. 4). However, throughout Brave New World there are characters that display uniqueness compared to the rest of the World State society, such as Helmholtz, Bernard and to an extent Lenina. In Handbook the authors state, “It appears that all societies must deal with tensions between collectivism and individualism and that there is some of both everywhere.” (Berry. 5). The World State does not have equality between the two ideas, and therefore it is excluding an important value from

The World State uses technology to control its citizens and make mass amounts of identical workers to do hard laborious jobs, and we fortunately do not. The World State is significantly ahead of us in technology and production, but our own society is far superior in the realm of being human. We can make our own choices and learn about many things. We are not conditioned to hate books or flowers, but we are taught to love things that make us unique. Our society supports most people, and the people who are not wholly supported by our society are making large strides to become more supported and educate others of their importance. In the World State, scientific discovery is only supported if can be applied to the production of humans or consumer goods, but in our society scientist can freely research anything and everything that catches their interest. The truth that Huxley suggests about human beings is that we are at our best when we can appreciate and develop as individuals together in a supporting