Castes In Brave New World

Brave new World is a sci-fi dystopian novel that takes place in the year 2540, or 632 AF (after Ford). It portrays a world that has advanced in genetic engineering, population control, the banning of natural reproduction, sleep-teaching and numerous other technology. Everyone is sanctioned into castes, Alpha, which is the highest caste, and the most physically superior, Beta, Gamma, Epsilon, and Delta. The controlling government, known as the world state, is managed by ten world controllers, spread out in the continents. Everyone is born inside of a bottle, and as they grow, they are sleep-taught to serve the world state, and are conditioned to not be jealous of other castes. This is done to prevent fighting among the castes, as an Epsilon
might want to be an Alpha, and a Delta might want to be a Gamma. This mentality is removed via the previously aforementioned sleep-teaching technique. The phrase "everyone belongs to everyone", is constantly uttered by the people in this society. Which means that there is no individuality whatsoever. Brave new World shares many parallels with Fahrenheit 451, as they both share similar themes which made me enjoy Brave new World so much. They are both set in the future, they both have societies where individuality is forgotten, and intellectual thinking is considered taboo. The society in Brave new World is indifferent to suffering, and everybody is brainwashed into thinking that they are truly "happy". This is not true, of course, and the "happiness" that they think they have is filled with orgies, "feely" theatres that send pleasure throughout their whole bodies, a drug called soma that is rationed to everybody, and recreational sex. But the World State feels the need to give the people a dose of V.P.S, which is what they consider enough pain to keep them in check. The main character, Bernard Marx, is an alpha plus, and feels contempt towards the society that he lives in.