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Essay / Social Stability - 1547
The novel is set in a dystopian world with a society that lives by the motto “Community, Identity, Stability”. In the first chapter, while visiting the incubation and conditioning center in central London, the DHC describes a process, the Bokanovsky process, by which humans are mass produced. “The Bokanovsky process,” he declares, “is one of the main instruments of social stability! » It allows for a stable population where, if there is a demand for a specific type of worker, a certain number of them can be trained to fill the position. Additionally, through this process, each of the ninety-six humans produced from a single Bokanovsky egg knows who and where they are in the community, and this is what the motto “Community, Identity” means. and stability” for all members of this society. In Brave New World, the past, particularly parenthood, is demeaned in order to maintain the stability of society. It is demeaned by conditioning babies to hate books and embedding a social norm that parenting and history are horrible, kissable subjects to talk about. For example, when the DHC asked the boys about the definition of a parent: “There was an uneasy silence and several boys blushed. » In the past, babies grew up with their parents and were conditioned either by nature or nurture. The flaw with this type of conditioning is that children grow up without knowing where they should be in the community at large. workplace, because at some point in history there would have been a shortage of a specific type of worker and society cannot mass produce humans to meet the criteria of working at will. In the New World, the past is suppressed because nature is opposed to nurture. the conditioning is completely removed and is replaced ... middle of paper ...... he also doesn't understand why his father rejects him. Being exposed to Shakespeare allowed John to verbalize his own complex emotions. , on the other hand, have almost no feelings of real emotions other than pleasure. If they, at any point in their life, start to feel sad or lonely, they could simply take a few grams of soma and feel better almost instantly. The value that John cherishes is virtue and purity, which are largely rejected in Brave New World. After discussions with Mustafa Mond, he quickly realizes that he will never have his place within civilization due to his vast differences in his values and his views on how to be human. He therefore cannot keep it as an experience in this society. After the death of his mother, whom he loves very much, John can no longer bear living in Brave New World and hangs himself...