Identity In Aldous Huxley's Brave New World

Aldous Huxley uses the theme: identity to associate political and social issues in the novel, Brave New World. In Brave New World, their society was much different than in 1930’s, but their were some similarities. The satire novel was interesting because of the sarcasm he uses to mock the 1930’s. He uses science, drug dependency, and even the caste system to identify the theme. The Alphas had to work harder than the rest of the caste system. In the novel ,the voice says,“Alpha children wear grey. They work much harder than we do, because they’re so frightfully clever. I’m really awfully glad i’m a Beta, because I don’t work as hard.” The
Alpha status made them superior over the lower class because it disparages their intelligence and inferiority of the lower class. …show more content…
In chapter three, the more the society conditions the citizens mind, the more they were being experimented on. They barely have an identity, and they didn’t have parents. So what do they know about identity?
In Brave New World , their society used drugs as a get away just like they did in our society in the 1930’s. In chapter nine, Lenina had been dependent on the drug soma such as everyone else in her society. She used them to deal with the problems . In the 1930’s , people used drugs such as: meth, marijuana, and even alcohol to forget about what was happening during the time. Marijuana was original for pain, meth was to stimulate the brain; meanwhile they used soma to ‘control’ their minds. Linda was a real drug abuser. Linda was basically an alcoholic because she couldn’t find a drug as ‘great’ as soma. Soma had complete control over their minds, they couldn’t identify who they were because of the drug. The drug made them someone else because they couldn’t speak their mind how they wanted to.
In society today people speak their mind. No matter the outcome or consequences. Colin
Kaepernick spoke his mind , about how he was not going to stand for the national