Individuality In Brave New World

Throughout the course of the novel Brave New World, Aldous Huxley generates the theme government dictated states remove individuality, and as a result, stability is sustained due to citizens being identical. Huxley illustrates this in chapter ten when he indicates that:
“The dynamos purred in the sub-basement, the lifts rushed up and down. On all the eleven floors of the Nurseries it was feeding time. From eighteen hundred bottles eighteen hundred carefully labeled infants were simultaneously sucking down their pint of pasteurized external secretions.
Above them, in ten successive layers of dormitory, the little boys and girls who were still young enough to need an afternoon sleep were busy as every one else, though they did not know it, listening

Created in mass quantities and likewise housed in mass dormitories, the World State is able to monitor its citizens, design their everyday schedules, and indoctrinate certain ideals upon them through hypnopaedic lessons. Since all children of the World State grow up in the same facility run by the government, they all are raised the same and taught by one party—the government—of social norms and morals. The detail of the children being fed information “though they did not know it” indicates that the government aims for everyone to have the same ideals that are approved and created by the government. The hypnopaedic lessons while the children sleep are significant because the detail leads the reader to discover that in a perfect society everyone must operate under the same social norms and posses the same moral in order to eliminate instability. In addition, the passage above also indicates that the eighteen hundred babies are labeled conveying that the government views them as products rather than individuals. This is significant in that the labels reveal that in a society where government has absolute power to truly generate its inhabitants, consistency of appearances and mindsets is more important than