Brave New World Dystopian

Early on in The Brave New World the reader is informed of the three pillars that create the of the World State: “Community, Identity, and Stability.” The World State is set in a futuristic era after nuclear devastation. The Brave New World’s society is held together by manipulating the genes, family, and relationships of the community. Although it seems on the surface that the World State is an utopian society, a deeper analysis shows that the conformity and control of the people cause a dystopia. Community is what keeps citizens from becoming outkast by solidarity with one another. Huxley writes “Everyone works for everyone else. We can’t do without any one. Even Epsilons…”(91). Lenina demonstrates the five castes in their community as well as the reliance on each other and government intervention. The idea of putting community before self is a complete opposite of how present society thinks. The author describes the perception of community: “ We decant our …show more content…
People are replicas of the same person, therefore there is no specialization in the World State. “ Old, young? Thirty? Fifty? Fifty-five? It was hard to say”(Huxley 4). Age is part of identity and in the World State it has been removed. Eliminating individual identity creates common characteristics with all people which keeps people from isolation in society. Huxley details how the hatcheries create citizens: “One egg, one embryo, one adult-normality.But bokanovskified egg will bud, will proliferate, will divide...Making ninety-six human beings grow where only one grew before.”(6). The World State controls society most through creating humans artificially rather than allowing normal conception. Without normal births the hatcheries can contain how an embryo is gonna develop to conform them to their caste. Identity is most crucial step to controlling the community and it’s mindset towards the