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In the book The Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, he presents a utopian society called the World State. The government provides its citizens with peace and stability while simultaneously robbing them of their essential humanity and individuality. Human beings are manufactured on an assembly line and monitored continuously for quality assurance. John, the “savage” is from an isolated Indian reservation in a whole different world than the World State, John initially represents a kind of pure human being with real emotions and not like the citizen of the World State, one whose nature contrasts with the mechanization of the World State. However, John becomes socially conditioned just as the World State citizens but also that his conditioning leads …show more content…

He has been taught to value and adopts their views on love, religion, and individuality. The people in the World State are drugged and conditioned to such extent that they do not display natural instincts and individual thoughts. John is consciously aware of his differentiation from the whole, and he acts in accordance with that knowledge by acting like an individual and independent human being. Unlike John, Lenina a citizen of the World State never consciously realizes that she is different from the rest of her society. Lenina still sees herself as a part of the World State instead of separate from it like John. Her conditioning does not seem to allow her to realize or even conceive of the possibility that she is different. For example, readers know Lenina is aware of the fact that “everyone belongs to everyone else” because she recites this phrase several times throughout the novel. However, it never occurs to her that she is doing anything wrong by not adhering to this clear rule; this suggests that the idea of not being the same as everyone else in Lenina’s society, that being distinct or individual at all, is such a foreign and unknown concept to Lenina that she cannot even fathom the idea, and instead chooses to simply ignore the conflict between her beliefs and her

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The reader encounters a repetition from Lenina in the start and the end of the passage chosen with “I don’t like it”, which shows how Lenina feels while visiting the reservation with Bernard, one of the other main protagonist of the novel. However, it is not the proof of how Lenina reacts throughout the passage to this new civilization she is discovering. Lenina is questioning Bernard about what they are both observing and as Lenina reacts outrageously, Bernard is taking the novelty factually and philosophically. While Lenina is throwing questions after questions to Bernard such as “What is the matter with him?” , “But how can they live like this?”, “old?”, he answers all of them rhetorically with “He's old, that's all”, or with, “these people

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