Social Division In Brave New World

Issues of Social Division

Social division has created a world in which each individual is heavily inclined to stagnate in a particular social class that they were born or nurtured into. In the novel Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, he made an accurate representation of what he predicted the world would be. Furthermore, the introduction of a complete socially divided society must work together with absolutely no chance of going up or down a social class. They are simply conditioned from birth to blindly accept their fate as an Alpha, Beta, Gamma, or Epsilon. These labels are correlative with reality since since every individual in our society is labeled as high, middle, or low class. According to this type of lifestyle, what problems arise with social division? “The class position affects the politics of individuals in the sense that the way women, racial or ethnic etc behave is determined not by their gender, racial, cultural Identity alone but by their overall position within the ensemble of social groups.”(Fotopoulos 1) Labeling someone as a certain class of individual creates a

It ultimately creates a society that is doomed to stay the same due to the fact that the social expectations which are pushed on to the public are undeniably negatively impacting our society as a whole. Additionally, Huxley was correct in his view of the world as it stands today in the sense that a society which is extremely socially divided causes many issues including socio-economics, exclusion, prejudice, and a widespread discriminatory behavior. Thoughts of global stability were also accurate as it was represented in the novel to show just how much people were willing to sacrifice in order to keep stability and avoid change of any sort which is relevant because in reality our society is similar to these concepts. These are the problems which arise with social