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Social Classes In Aldous Huxley's Brave New World

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The book Brave New World written by Huxley is about the World State, a society with a unique system. Huxley indicated several ways of how the World State works in which shares some similarities and several differences to our world. It is very different from our world in terms of how people are born, educated, and segregated in social classes. However in some circumstances it also shares some similarities on how people are taught and how people are divided in social classes in our world. In the World State, people are created and born very differently from our own world. People are made by using scientific procedures that allows them to multiply into large numbers of identical twins. This process is called “Bokanovsky’s Process …a Bokanovskyified …show more content…

Some ways that places people in different levels of social classes are by birth or by weighing the amount of assets individuals own. In our wold, we have what we call the upper class, middle class, and lower class. And in the World State they divide groups of people by Alpha, Beta , Gamma, Delta. And Epsilon”. Both worlds have different categories of classes that people are grouped in. However in contrast to our world which allows each individuals to decide for their life, World State "decant ...babies as socialized human beings, as Alphas or Epsilons, as future sewage workers or future…world controllers…Directors of Hatcheries” page.23. This proves that World States is different from our world because they decide for the people's purpose in life including their work, social class, and preferences. People have the power to from their own good in our world but in World States, their government have already set a goal for them to follow. In conclusion, World State and our own world are different. Their process of creating, educating and separating individuals to their levels of social class proves that they have different systems of running people and the society. World States' methods mostly used science and has a goal to make the society a better place by controlling the people. Therefore World States and our world is very

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