Struggles In Brave New World Analysis

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Class Struggle
In the first page of Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, the reader learns the three very foundation upon which the social system or caste is allegedly built: “Community, Identity, Stability.” The processes by which these three structures that are achieved and sustained, in spite of that, it seems completely contradictory in the novel Brave New World. For the reader, “community” is understood as a group of diverse individuals, while in World State, people are essentially genetically manufactured to be set into one of five social castes(Alphas,Betas,Gammas,Deltas,and Epsilons). The modern reader of Brave New World understands “identity” to be highly individual, but the caste system prevents anything by conformity and uniformity, and it is through these that stability is reached. Or is it really achieved? Although World State is highly controlled and manipulated, one can counter argue that it is anything but stable. In a society in which individual rights are does not exist and people are not permitted to develop their own identities, there can be no stability gained. John’s suicide at the end of Brave New World confirms that World State is utterly chaotic and unjust, despite all of the efforts to maintain complete social …show more content…

The phrase is embedded so deeply into the self consciousness of each person's mind that they take its meaning to be the absolute truth. In any case, the phrase sparks consumer behavior, since their are more people fixing their consumer goods, the less they will buy, resulting in the decrease of money in the economic system of society. Creating consumption is one of the many tasks of government because consumption keeps lower castes employed with no time on their hands for disruptive behavior(keep them occupied to not notice of what they have is not enough and they want

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