Aldous Huxley’s text, Brave New World, will leave you questioning your perspective on life and it’s choices. Within the novel, curious readers can see that government control over all in an attempt to create a utopia, can sometimes have a counter effect, creating a dystopia. Wielding it’s tool of conformity, The World State has forced its ideology into the minds of its people at a young age, in hopes of avoiding rebellion. In many ways this is how our society functions in the real world. The genre of Huxley's text may be fiction, but the society fabricated in Brave New World may not be so fictional after all. Would one hold the same values if he was, perhaps, born to a different family? The answer is probably “no”. For instance, if an individual is born into a family of integrity, he will likely embrace that trait, just as an individual born into a family of duplicity will likely embrace that trait. This ability for an individual to adapt to his surroundings is better known as conformity, or in Brave New World as “conditioning” where it is heavily stressed. Although the word “conditioning” has a relatively …show more content…
Throughout the text, John becomes more and more rebellious as he comes to realize the inhumanity that exists in the World State. In chapter 15, John expresses his disapproval of the drug, Soma, saying, "Don't take that horrible stuff. It's poison, it's poison.". Having much more “real” knowledge than those of the community, John constantly stresses how the drug hinders their ability to feel any grief and ultimately limits individuality. Unfortunately, John was transported to Iceland, failings his job in ending the domino type system the is the World State. In the minds of their leaders, if outcasts like John remained on the mainland, the whole community would be poisoned by rebellious