Brave New World Post # 1

In Brave New World  they have created equality by predestining each person's life through the manufacturing of Human Beings. Human beings no longer produce children, rather surgically removed ovaries produce ova that  are extracted and artificially fertilized and incubated. The techniques used to make the children is what divides them into the 5 social classes Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, and Epsilon.  Gamma, Delta, and Epsilon undergo a process that uses shocking to divide in embryo into nearly one hundred different identical beings. These castes serve as lower casts and therefore are more identical and the way they are brought up determines what job they shall get in life. The Alpha and Beta castes are the upper class that are made more gently and our brought up to be more intelligent and clever than those of lower castes. As well the use 'neo-Pavlovian' ways to condition the lower classes to fear books and nature and the upper classes to feel prideful of their social position. This is exemplified when Director turned on the voice that is repeated to the Betas to give them a sense of social place "Alpha children wear grey. They work much harder than we do, because they;re so frightfully clever. I'm  really awfully glad I'm a Beta, because I don't work so hard. And then we are much better than the Gammas and Deltas. Gammas are stupid. They all wear green, and Delta children wear Khaki. Oh no, I don't want to play with Delta children. And Epsilons are still worse" (40).The cloning process is one of the tools the World State uses to implement it's motto: “Community, Identity, Stability.” This predestining of futures and Neo-Pavlovian conditioning is what causes equality and conformity.



They reduced conflict, by making it so that people are content with their social position and have no desire to change social classes. By banning religion, books, nature, etc, they have eliminated different aspects of individuality and further reduced conflict.  


The World State has created happiness through the use of Soma, a drug that essentially halts Humans from making cautious thought in a sense that it gives them a feeling of blissful pleasure. 


The Society in Brave New World may be described as more Dystopic than Utopic. Thought the people are happy with their social position and have no desire to switch classes, they are brain washed into this false contentment such as a dystopic society would do.