Aldous Huxley's Brave New World: Community, Identity, Stability

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Vett bates
Mrs. Fletcher
ERWC Block: 3
4 May, 2015 “Society vs. Society” "Community, Identity, Stability". (Chapter 1, pg. 1) is how Aldous Huxley describes our futures society in the book “Brave New World”? In the book society is broken into 5 classes Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, Epsilon. In the book the D.H.C creates and conditions humans to like certain things and live a certain way. Compared to today's society where we have a choice of what we want to do with our lives and how we want to live. In other words we have freedom, in the book the people have no freedom. There are many ways in which the books idea of a perfect society is different from todays but there are also many similarities as well. there are many ways society today is different from BNW’s, but there are also similarities.

Only a select few people at the top of the World State control Society in BNW. This includes the 10 world powers and the director of D.C.H. "My good boy!" The Director wheeled sharply round on him. "Can't you see? Can't you see?" He
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Solidarity service is in a way like church. The people go there to sing his, praise their prophet, and prophecies of the coming of a higher being. Their prophet is henry ford the man who first introduced the assembly line and started mass production. "There was a thing, as I've said before, called Christianity”...."The ethics and philosophy of under-consumption…."So essential when there was under-production; but in an age of machines and the fixation of nitrogen—positively a crime against society." (3.200-4). In the book at solidarity people sing hems, praise their prophet Henrry ford, and speak of the coming of a higher being. Instead of like todays society where there are multiple gods and prophets. In BNW Henry Ford is the higher classes such as alpha, beta and gamma, and they don’t know who the higher being is they just await its

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