Brave New World-Identity

The Novel, “Brave New World,” by Aldous Huxley demonstrated that in this new World State, Identity is lost. “Everyone belongs to everyone” is one saying that is repeated throughout the book by civilians who were taught this lesson when they were children through hypnopaedia. In this world, humans are created in a factory and given certain ingredients, so to say, to fashion them to fit into their group of the caste system used. There are five groups and each are represented by color and each group had certain jobs. It is easy to say that not one person will stick out because i turn, they are supposed to be all the same. But three men are irritated with how they are not able to live how they want and pursue to specify who they truly are inside. Bernard, an Alpha, is not the same as all the other Alphas. It is rumored that something happened when he was being created and possibly too much alcohol was put in his embryo which made him six inches shorter than everyone else. He felt distant from everyone else because if you are not the same, it is hard to feel like you belong. This alone time gave him the opportunity to think for himself about being free. This kind of thinking was not allowed. Even though Bernard finally started being recognized because he designated himself the savage’s accredited guardian that he brought back to the New World after having a visit to the reservation, it soon went all to his head. John, the savage, was the so called “son” of the Director and a woman that he had intercourse with. The Director and the woman went to the reservation which is a place where Humans as we know it, continue living, but they are mostly all Indian like. She ended up lost and the Director left, so she had her baby and has been there ever since. John and his mother did not fit in well. John was the only pale man, but he still went to the elders for guidance and answers. When Bernard came, John wanted to go back to the new world with him and so he did. After he met his father, society labeled John as a person of outstanding importance. John was learning how this world works, but was sickened by it. He grew up with marriage, not with promiscuity being demanded. After his mom died and no one recognizing it as a loss, he went crazy. Helmholtz was called to stop him when he created a scene in public. Helmholtz is an Alpha who is extremely handsome and has a mind of his own that had to be maintained. He is a lecturer at a college but feel that he could do more with his writings and is unsatisfied with how he has to be maintained from sharing his thoughts. He once shared a poem about being alone to his students who then reported him. Helmholtz has been playing it safe for now while being good friends with Bernard. They both know what it is like to dislike the world they live in and they bond over that. This is what led Helmholtz and John to become friends and why he was called to calm John down when he had had enough and displayed that publicly. The three men were called into Mustapha Mond, one of the ten controllers, office. In the end, Helmholtz was sent to an Island of his choosing because of his thoughts not being healthy for society. Bernard begs for a second chance. Once they both were gone, John sets out to purge himself of all that he has been through living in this created world and ends up committing suicide. These men had something in common, being alone gave them more time to think. This is when they developed ideas. Once they had thoughts in their mind, there was no way to get them out. They all had their own individuality, but with it came consequences with only Helmholtz with an ending he approved of. Bernard and John were not lucky. Even though they had their own mind set, they still were under the rule of the World State controllers, so they were not free. They are like animals, not having the chance to be free but able to have thoughts.