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Social Stability In Brave New World

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Brave New World Prompt #2 In the Brave New World, Huxley created a world of perfect social stability. But in facts, the social stability cost is not worth the price, because people lose their individuality to the government, citizen’s emotion is controlled by the government and the society will stay have no improvement in the future. The government eliminated people’s individuality in order to build a utopian society. In the book, Mond said that “No social stability without individual stability.”(BNW,) this shows the government understands individuality must be taken out, in order to achieve a social stability. In another word, the government in Brave New World does not care about whether the citizens can think or not. But as human, …show more content…

The government restricted the negative emotion and citizens personal belief by conditioning them to only believe Ford other than God and offer citizens soma break when they have a negative emotion. In Chapter three of the book "All crosses had their tops cut and became T's. There was also a thing called God[...]We have the World State now. And Ford's Day celebrations, and Community Sings, and Solidarity Services"(BNW,). Mond and other World Controllers tried to eliminate the other religions and only regulates it into one which is to believe in Henry Ford. “They're old; they're about God hundreds of years ago. Not about God now; But God doesn't change. Men do though”(BNW,) In this passage, Mond is talking to a savage about the religion process and the system that Mond designed for Brave New World, in order to change citizens belief, the government has conditioned them since citizens were just infants as Mond said, men, do change. He has converted people’s belief by conditioning them throughout the years, so they will only believe Ford as their God. As government made Ford into citizens God, they also made soma into citizens savior when they have negative emotions." why you don't take soma when you have these dreadful ideas of yours. You'd forget all about them. And instead of feeling miserable, you'd be jolly. So jolly,"(BNW,). This quote express citizens take

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