Brave New World Conflicts

In the novel, “Brave New World”, there are many conflicts. Each individual character faces their own internal struggle, but there is one overall conflict that they all share. The fight for their individual lives. For example, Bernard is an individual. He strays from the normality of the new world more than the D.H.C would prefer. So to take care of his Bernard problem, he threatens him with exile. He makes sure to threaten him with this right before he goes on vacation, so as to make him suffer. In this world, the government controls every aspect of your life. Acknowledging the idea of government control within the novel, is crucial to understanding why the characters unknowingly fight for their individual. When Bernard Marx goes to New Mexico,

She recites her caste conditioning on many occasions, proving that her conditioning has been effective in shaping the way she thinks. To the reader, this may prove something else. Although Lenina is theoretically perfect, she still passionately feels for John. She wants to only be with him and is sad when he isn’t around. In a society where monogamy is banned, it still found its way in. A character, who at first seems very uninteresting, is having interesting feelings. Interesting because she is not supposed to have them. Later in the book, Lenina strips naked and throws herself upon John. He becomes upset and calls her a whore. The way John has been conditioned (socially, in savage lands), he believes that you should not have sexual contact with someone until you are married. Lenina believes the opposite. They never become a couple because of this. They are both rebelling against society without even realizing it. Each character in Brave New World faces a not so unique problem, they are different. Some of them are so different that they are exiled. Most of them are just unhappy. To sum up, everyone in Brave New World is fighting for themselves. They all want to be as them as they can