A Brave New World Quote Analysis

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In Aldous Huxley’s, Brave New World, a dystopian government called The World State, controls every single asset of life for the citizens living there. Taking place in a futuristic London, the World State conditions its people and ultimately controls every aspect of its caste system: Alphas, Betas, Gammas, Deltas, and Epsilons. With the minority of elite Alphas being ruling at the top and the intellectually-impaired the intellectually-impaired Epsilons representing the majority of the bottom low, the World State guarantees no part of its society is exposed to freedom. Concluding to their motto, “Community, Identity, Stability”, from Identity the lower caste systems are genetically identical and made like that to create Stability, which reduces …show more content…

Some ways the embryos are modified are the following: exposure to x-rays, doused in alcohol, and later split starting from eight embryos turning into ninety-six embryos, this is called the Bokanovsky’s Process; the upper caste do not go through this process. “Ninety-six identical twins working ninety-six identical machines” (Director 7). As said by the director, known as Mustapha Mond the controller of the World State, people’s lives are planned ahead of time to work on machines without a say due to how they are dealt with through the Bokanovsky's Process. Their destiny is planned, the embryos are barely made and already, their lives are destined, the will grow up being conditioned to working and being happy working with machines providing the service the World State wants them to. The embryos will not escape, said by the controller, “All conditioning aims at that: making people like their unescapable social destiny” (16). Compared to the current world, embryos are not modified through any process nor are lives planned or produced by the government, but are conditioned to apply that work has to be done once a certain age is