Individuality In Brave New World

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In Brave New World, in Huxley’s made up utopian society, the World State, does have stability. But, it is at a cost. The people living in the World State think that they have to do their exact part and and everything that they are told just to keep a functioning society. The people are not allowed to have any type of individuality. Everybody is just like the next person. They are placed into classes from birth and are given a job just to make sure that the community is stable. But, the people lose their sense of individuality. Nobody knows what it is really like to be completely different from everyone or to be there own person. Helmholtz talking to Bernard about how he is “thinking of a queer feeling I sometimes get, a feeling that I’ve got

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