Conformity In Brave New World

In a world that is drastically changing and becoming less and less humane, the people around us show separated traits that show what they are apart of: their conformity.
People even condition children from the beginning to lose their innocence and become part of the society and follow their rules and ideals. In the novel Brave New World, there are traits given to the characters, such as their sexual drive, or their views towards the rest of the society, in order to give the reader the impression that is how they express conformity. Huxley uses these different satirical traits to express the unconscious conformity that he believes society has inherited.
One character, who shows our lust aspect of conformity, goes by the name of Lenina Crowne.

He was born to his mother Linda, a Beta who resembled Lenina back when she lived in the World State in England, who in turn treated him poorly. Linda would often give remarks on how she would have loved it without him around, but soon regret her actions. John would still love her and forgive her, yet still desired the attention she gave to her lovers. His actual upbringing was different from the conditioning the other humans went through: shocking the babies when they witnessed the flowers and books explode. John experienced a childhood, and learned the “old ways” of life. Examples would be to “woo” the girl, experience the beauty of nature, and live with morals. When he fell for Lenina, he used quotes from Shakespeare and other plays in order to impress her and educate her of his morals. Although John was our voice of reason, his publicity as the Director’s son quickly ran out, his mother died, and he was looked upon as an animal instead of a person. In an article by Peter Edgerly Firchow, John was “initially viewed by the public with fascination,” the fascination gave him the attention he desired and the “love” he wanted from his mother, but in the end. he was “considered an outsider on the reservation, and he commits suicide.” By using John to contrast the other two characters, emphasizing their conformity: John’s insecurity and

Lenina’s attitude and sexuality represent the society’s inability to experience emotional depth, as they rely only on soma, a drug, in order to feel something: arousal. In an article by Laura Frost, she explains that “once decanted, they start a sterile, pre-programmed life that is lacking emotional depth or free will..” or rather once they are given a taste of one thing, they prefer that one flavor over the rest. Lenina chooses to seduce John, who does not wish to lay a finger on her until marriage, but Lenina does not understand and takes it as defeat. This explains that those conformed wish to stay in their own territory, due to the lack of depth they have to understand anything that isn’t familiar. By giving Bernard his reckless behavior, irritating personality, and his insecurities express the individual need to be apart of some greater whole, the unconscious need to conform even if it means that it isn’t a good society. By giving John the innocent perspective, the different personality with the human morals along with his treatment as an outsider, shows the actual society the New World has. Frost also explains that “the main characters are regular people from whose perspective the reader views the