Identity In Brave New World

The novel Brave New World shows that in order for a utopian society to achieve a state of stability, a loss of individuality, and the undoings of Mother Nature must occur. That being said successfully engineering these conditions produces a world of hope where the people are finally living a "happily ever after", but at a great cost. Community, Identity, and Stability is part of the conditions that plays a major role in the novel Brave New World. Community did not have the meaning that we are used to hearing and speaking now in days. Instead it stands for lack of community, meaning there's no choice of higher rankings in that community. Instead you are assigned even before production, you're placed in society and the person could almost never know what are the differences between being an Alpha or a Gamma. Someone in the …show more content…
In the Brave New World identity is nonexistent, no one has any feelings, and no one possesses any of their own characteristics, they all seem to be a ligh any of their own characteristics, they all seem to be alike. If the person was to find or try to find their own identity they would be looked down on and made to take a drug called soma. "Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn't nearly so spectacular as instability. And being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against misfortune, none of the picturesqueness of a struggle with temptation, or a fatal overthrow by passion or doubt. Happiness is never grand." World Controller Mustapha Mond,(Pg. 221)."This proves that taking the soma causes hallucinations and to be calm and not care about what you're doing. This drug was everyone's way out of having to deal with any unpleasant things or their way of having a good time. In a way soma was the way of changing people's