Social Stability, the most important element in any established society. Sometimes this important element comes with a price, but what kind of price would we pay for it? Would we pay with religion? What about the family? Or even our best friends, or our pets? In Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley, we see a society where they have given up all these important pieces of their lives in the name of that supreme element, social stability. There is no pain, limited sadness/stress, and little to no attachment. Sounds pretty dang perfect, right? Well we’ve talked benefits and according to the law of physics there has to be a reaction or some push to the pull. So what’s the push, or the cost? Without these elements we lose identity, we forget fidelity,
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It is how we define who we are as an individual unit of society. However, in Brave New World, identity is seen as a threat to social stability. In the book’s world, the controllers get rid of identities by using what they call “the Bokanovsky Process”. In this process they take a single egg and a single sperm and create up to 96 identical twins. This all but eliminates a person’s singular identity. So why would they use this process? Well, according to Mustapha Mond, it is this way in the name of “Progress.” Progress towards social stability and towards identity loss. Essentially, they have given up the traditional vicarious relationship so that they can have more equality and stability. In our own society we have seen an increasing amount of loss of individuality via internet and phones. We have all become obsessed with following a trend, not unlike sheep following their …show more content…
That thing is love. We sacrifice the possibility of true love when we get rid of it’s strength, fidelity. Without it, our world ultimately loses love which is the basis for all other emotions. Love is the enemy of stability, in that it’s a package deal. You can’t have love without the multitude of emotions that come with it. They have all but gotten rid of love by spreading the idea that love is not the highest ideal. Lustful girls are virtuous girls. In our society we too have begun to replace the idea of love with that of
It is how we define who we are as an individual unit of society. However, in Brave New World, identity is seen as a threat to social stability. In the book’s world, the controllers get rid of identities by using what they call “the Bokanovsky Process”. In this process they take a single egg and a single sperm and create up to 96 identical twins. This all but eliminates a person’s singular identity. So why would they use this process? Well, according to Mustapha Mond, it is this way in the name of “Progress.” Progress towards social stability and towards identity loss. Essentially, they have given up the traditional vicarious relationship so that they can have more equality and stability. In our own society we have seen an increasing amount of loss of individuality via internet and phones. We have all become obsessed with following a trend, not unlike sheep following their …show more content…
That thing is love. We sacrifice the possibility of true love when we get rid of it’s strength, fidelity. Without it, our world ultimately loses love which is the basis for all other emotions. Love is the enemy of stability, in that it’s a package deal. You can’t have love without the multitude of emotions that come with it. They have all but gotten rid of love by spreading the idea that love is not the highest ideal. Lustful girls are virtuous girls. In our society we too have begun to replace the idea of love with that of