There is no self-identity in Brave New World. There is no chance for an individual identity to be created due to the lack of self worth. This dystopian society is hyper focused on what a person can contribute to the community. This contribution translates into a Caste system with Alphas, Betas, Gammas, Deltas, and Epsilons. Each caste is assigned to a particular part of society, being conditioned to be the best they can be at their role in test tubes before they are even born. Self-identity is also compromised by the fact that the government makes each caste genetically identical using something they call the Bokanovsky Process. Furthermore, when a person is even slightly different from the rest after his process, they are exiled from society
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In Pippin, Pippin was lucky enough to escape his death by being disillusioned of society’s expectations. Throughout the entire show the Leading Player, the main orchestrator of all things Pippin does, continues to refer to the “grand finale”. The show ends with the Leading Player telling Pippin that his grand finale was to jump into a pit of fire, causing his existence to end in extravagance and forever be known as “great”. The Leading Player contrasts Pippin’s mundane life and how each day repeats itself with the beauty in “one perfect flame” (Schwartz, Finale). The leading Player is implying that he can change his entire life by dying. This will put him in a perpetual cycle of greatness and fulfillment known by others. However, Pippin realized the beauty in the mundane nature of his new life; he met Catherine: the love interest of Act two. This revelation began to reveal itself in the end of Act one when the Leading Player reveals that Pippin’s lack of fulfillment came from the scarcity of what we know from the adage “it’s the little things” (Schwartz, Simple Joys). Once Pippin fully understands that love and the simplicity of life was all he needed to feel complete he sings the lines saying that fulfillment “never was there, it was always here” (Schwartz,
In Pippin, Pippin was lucky enough to escape his death by being disillusioned of society’s expectations. Throughout the entire show the Leading Player, the main orchestrator of all things Pippin does, continues to refer to the “grand finale”. The show ends with the Leading Player telling Pippin that his grand finale was to jump into a pit of fire, causing his existence to end in extravagance and forever be known as “great”. The Leading Player contrasts Pippin’s mundane life and how each day repeats itself with the beauty in “one perfect flame” (Schwartz, Finale). The leading Player is implying that he can change his entire life by dying. This will put him in a perpetual cycle of greatness and fulfillment known by others. However, Pippin realized the beauty in the mundane nature of his new life; he met Catherine: the love interest of Act two. This revelation began to reveal itself in the end of Act one when the Leading Player reveals that Pippin’s lack of fulfillment came from the scarcity of what we know from the adage “it’s the little things” (Schwartz, Simple Joys). Once Pippin fully understands that love and the simplicity of life was all he needed to feel complete he sings the lines saying that fulfillment “never was there, it was always here” (Schwartz,