Theme Of Individuality In Brave New World

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Brave New World

In the World State everyone is conditioned from time they are born to be the same without ever knowing. The World States conditions people through using the pavlovian theory at a young age and introduce drugs from the time they are born. In the book Brave New World By Aldous Huxley Individuality is presented throughout the book but is primarily shown with John The Savage.John is shown as the number one individual that what nothing to with ways of the world state, we also see small examples of individuality throughout the story with different characters. John the Savage comes the Reservation to the World State and from the very beginning he does not want to conform to their ways. One example of how John was his own individual

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