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Individuality In Brave New World

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Imagine a place where there is no violence or disease, a place where everyone is happy with themselves and others. Would you live in this “perfect” society where no gets angry with one another and the whole world is stable? The novel “Brave New World,” written by Aldous Huxley makes this world come alive in just 311 pages. However, along with a perfect society, there is a catch, everyone is conditioned into being happy in order to keep the world stable and no one person can have their individual freedom. Bernard is a person in their society that is having a hard time trying to act like the rest of his civilization. He then brings in an outsider to their society named John, in which he judges their actions and start to question their ways of living. In Aldous Huxley’s thought-provoking …show more content…

For example, everyone in their world is required to attend a solidarity service every other week, in which they unite together into one being. After one of the solidarity services Bernard he feels empty and rethinks the twisted values they believe in. “He was as miserably isolated now as he had been when the service began--more isolated by reason of his unreplenished emptiness, his dead satiety. Separate and unatoned, while the others were being fused into the Greater Being; alone even in Morgana’s embrace--much more alone, indeed, more hopelessly himself than he had ever been in his life before” (86). Bernard felt as though he was watching his fellow citizens lose their individuality during the solidarity service. Afterward, he was lonely because no one cares about other emotions, however, by separating himself from the group he gained back his individuality and decisions to choose what was best for him. Everyone else doesn’t have their own distinct thoughts because all of them are conditioned into acting and being a certain way since the day they were

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