Identity In Brave New World

Aldous Huxley’s, Brave New World, introduces to readers an innovative technological world where science is used in order to uphold stability, and society is divided into five castes consisting of alphas, betas, gammas, deltas, and epsilons. John, a savage, has never been able to fit into society back at the reservation, so coming into an educated world is extremely difficult. Moving through two contradicting societies, John is unable to conform to the differences in the civilized society. transition. He struggles to find meaning in the superficial world surrounding him. Similarly, people today struggle with confidence and conforming to society. Throughout the novel, Huxley encourages the idea that humanity is heading downhill. I agree with

A biological reproduction system produces specific castes of humans in batches of 96 identical copies. A social "caste" structure separates the citizens into five groups, the result being that any given individual is little more than a faceless, color-coded member of a larger group. Problems with identity are shown to readers in the first line of the book, stating “A SQUAT grey building of only thirty-four stories. Over the main entrance the words, CENTRAL LONDON HATCHERY AND CONDITIONING CENTRE, and, in a shield, the World State's motto, COMMUNITY, IDENTITY, STABILITY” (Huxley 1). This is an interesting motto, to say the least. The "community" and "stability" part is not too complex to comprehend, but the idea of identity is a bit confusing since the whole governing factor of the World State is that individual identity has diminished. The way readers look at it is that identity embedded in community and stability. Chapter 3 introduces Fanny who is basically the female version of Henry Foster; an example of what an ordinary woman is like in the new world. Fanny “worked in the Bottling Room, and her surname was also Crowne. But as the two thousand million inhabitants of the plant had only ten thousand names between them, the coincidence was not particularly surprising” (Huxley 36). Although the upper castes consist of dozens of identical copies, individuals still lack any sort of independent identity. Camilla Orjuela states in Corruption and identity politics in divided societies, that “corruption is a major problem for populations in various parts of the world. To understand the problems and dynamics of corruption, we need to understand how discourses and practices of corruption (and anti-corruption efforts) are intertwined with the construction and contestations of identity.” Characters in the novel are trained to love their castes,