The feeling of community in the New World is quite astonishing. The inhabitants of the World State have absolutely no families. In fact, they are “made” in bottles in a “hatchery”. The words “mother” and “father” are considered profanity and blasphemy. People are taught to indulge in promiscuity and ignore monogamy. In fact, monogamy is frowned upon because “everyone belongs to everyone” (p. 40). Lenina is criticized by Fanny for only sleeping with Henry Foster for 4 months, she says "it's horribly bad to continue like this with just one man... you know how much the DHC is opposed to everything that is intense or long-lasting…why, he would be furious if he knew” (p. 41), children learn to indulge in “erotic play”. All this desensitizes them and erases them. feelings of love, jealousy and other emotions Mustapha Mond adds that with “a strong feeling, how could they be stable” (p. 41). 'one, waiting to come together, to merge, to lose their twelve distinct identities into a greater being' (p. 80)....