Individuality In Brave New World

In the Book Brave New World By Aldous Huxly, the first chapter D.C.H explains the biotechnology that makes it possible for the production of virtually identical human beings and this introduces Huxly’s theme of individuality. In Brave New World the people are “sub human” not benign capable of work but not of their own independence. Making it so that society is the same and there are no “unique” people, “We also predestine and condition. We decant our babies as socialized human beings, as Alphas or Epsilons, as future sewage workers or future…” He was going to say future World Controllers,” but correcting himself, said “future Directors of Hatcheries,” instead” (Brave New World, Aldous Huxley, pg 13). D.C.H fertilizes the babies themselves so they all become the same human being, they do this because to them human beings used to be “viviparous”. “(“For you must remember that in those days of gross viviparous reproduction, children were always brought up by their parents and not in State Conditioning Centres.”) Brave New World, Aldous

The Character John is different from the other characters because he was the only one that was born a natural birth, due to his mother being pregnant with him the Government sent his mom to a reservation because in Brave New Worlds Society that can never happen it’s not like for the women to have babies. John in the book is struggling to cope with the state’s lack of humanity and what people would disagree with the beliefs and morals. In the book John says “I ate civilization, it poisoned me; I was defiled and then.” He added in a lower tone, “I ate my own weakness.” (Brave New World, Aldous Huxley). John slowly gives up on himself and the society around him, the only advice he really is getting is to take soma, soma being an addictive drug that the characters take to avoid facing any other