A Brave New World Quote Analysis

1) “Books and loud noises, flowers and electric shocks--already in the infant mind these couples were compromisingly linked; and after two hundred repetitions of the same or a similar lesson would be wedded indissolubly.” (Huxley 22)
In the Conditioning Center, nurses train babies into liking and disliking certain things with the intention to develop specific traits to properly place them into a certain caste where they can associate themselves with people of similar interests whether it be Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, and Epsilon. All people are not created equal--some people like one thing and some people may dislike that one thing. But generally, no one likes pain. By exposing children to “books and loud noises, flowers and electric shocks,” babies are conditioned to believe that books and flowers lead to pain and, therefore, should be avoided. Although Bernard Marx is put

No social stability without individual stability.” (Huxley 42)
Stability is a key word in the World State. Everything revolves around social stability in order for the World State to survive and be at its best. The only way to achieve this is by having a society that never changes and is always balanced. To have social stability, a consistency of stability throughout the entire community must exist and, since individuals make up for the community, individuals must be stable. To foster this stability, castes are created within the World State; in addition, the use of Soma is encouraged, thereby creating “stable” citizens who conform to societal norms. This mantra of “social stability” strongly pervades the story. The phrase is repeated in the quote, almost akin to brainwashing, strongly implying that “individual” stability is subordinate to the goal of “social” stability–even to the extent of artificially manufacturing the former through the use of the powerful, happiness-inducing drug Soma–to achieve the ultimate goal of the