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Brave New World - Analysis

“Over the main entrance the words, Central London Hatchery and Conditioning
Center, and in a shield the World State’s motto, Community, Identity, Stability.”
(Huxley,1) As Brave New World opens, the ideas of this motto initially seems like a
decent idea. As the book develops I found there is no community, identity, or stability
and is a mere paradox and false representation to create a stable utopia.

The idea of community we have today is virtually non-existent in this new
world. When I think of community I think of next door neighbors, attending weddings,
and family dinners. In the utopia present by Huxley this is all banished. Solitude and
time that one person needs to be alone to think and relax is highly discouraged. Sexual
promiscuity is formed so there is no family or dependence to occupy one’s mind. The
idea of community that relates to current day church is when Bernard attends the Fordson
Community Singery. Here the twelve individuals eat strawberry ice-cream soma, praise
Ford, and all diverge in an Orgy-Porgy. This felling of community replaces church sine
God is now unheard of. Sex and Ford makes up this utopia’s community. The only true
utopia seen in Brave New World is when Bernard and Lenina visit the Savage
Reservation. Mothers are seen with babies and there are nuclear families. This true
community is viewed by the civilized as grotesque and disturbing due to there
conditioning.





Destiny in Brave New World is chosen for you before you are even decanted.
From the Bokanovsky’s process group details of heredity, jobs, and names are written on
the bottle people are being formed in. Alcohol is injected in the bottle if the person is of
a lower class to make then less intelligent and capable. The jobs are determined and
people are prepared with...

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