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Social Stability In Brave New World

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Brave New World Essay #1”Community, Identity, Stability”
Social stability is one of the most difficult things that one can maintain, social stability is not only about one and society, social stability is about the whole world and every individual on it. Community and identity need to maintain as one and also they both need to be exercise by everyone in order to achieve the goal of social stability. In the book Brave New World, By Aldous Huxley who writes about a world where people were artificial made and not born as today, sacrificing real feelings and emotion attachments is the unjustified price that society has to pay for social stability in their world Brave New World, start with the introduction of Tomakin, the Director of the Central …show more content…

Huxley shows that the government does not recognizes the dangers of taking the emotions away from people he show us that the government make them pay a really high price and also scarified their happiness “but that’s the price we have to pay for stability. You’ve got to choose between happiness and what people used to high art. We’ve sacrificed the high art. We have the feelies and the scent organ instead” (Huxley 220). The government wants then to feel this way at all the time the government is controlling then as they please. But of course the government is wrong by thinking that this can be control by giving them drugs or something to make them feel always happy also by giving them free sexual relations which are encouraged for all, especially for the young, to discourage any sense of love. With sexual relations starting so early, the citizens can never fully appreciate the act of love and the feelings that go with it the government has the perfect wrong way to have them there and make then do whatever they want them to do or feel. Huxley shows that when the citizens were either alone or had a moment of free time, creative forces tended to creep out. This is when

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