Social Stability

The Novel is set in a dystopian world with a society that lives by the motto “Community, Identity, Stability.” In chapter one, during the visit to the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre, the D.H.C. describes a process, the Bokanovsky Process, through which humans are mass produced. “Bokanovsky's Process”, he states, “is one of the major instruments of social stability!" It allows for a stable population where if there is a demand for a specific type of worker, a number of them can be produced to occupy the job. Also through this process, each of the ninety–six humans produced from a single Bokanovsky egg know who and where they are in the community, and that is what the motto “Community, Identity, and Stability” means to all people in this society.

In Brave New World, the past, particularly parenting, is demeaned in order to maintain stability in the society. It is demeaned by conditioning babies to hate books, and embedding a social norm that parenting and history are horrible and embracing topics to talk about. For example, when the D.H.C questioned the boys about the definition of a parent “There was an uneasy silence, and several of the boys blushed.” In the past babies grew up with parents and were conditioned by either nature or nurture. The flaw with this type of conditioning is that kids grow up unsure of where they should be in the overall community. Another problem is that it causes an instability in the work place, because at some point in history, there would have been a lack of a specific type of workers and the society cannot mass produce humans to fit the work’s criteria as they please. In the New World the past is suppressed because nature vs nurture conditioning is completely eliminated and is replace...

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...e also doesn’t understand why his father rejects him.

Being exposed to Shakespeare has allowed John to verbalize his own complex emotions. Other Alphas, on the other hand have almost no sense of real emotions other than feeling pleasure. If they, at any point in their lives, start to feel sad or lonely they could just take a few grams of soma and almost instantly feel better. A major value that John cherishes is virtue and purity, which is largely dismissed in the Brave New World. After discussions with Mustafa Mond, he quickly realizes that he will never have a place within civilization because of his vast differences in his values and his Views on how to be Human. He, therefore, cannot keep him as an experiment in this society. After the Death of his mother, whom he loves very much, John cannot endure living in the Brave New World much longer and hangs himself.