Essay On Brave New World Identity

Community, identity, and stability; these concepts are key things to living a stress-free, enjoyable life. But in the book, Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, life in the World State is anything but stress-free and enjoyable. That is, if you’re not conditioned by the government. In this universe, the government uses the motto “Community, Identity, Stability”, to keep their people under their rheostat, these are their ‘goals’. Their ‘community’ is that of drugs, sex, and violence. Using these concepts of being together and being identical, doesn’t give a sense of personal identity. Taking drugs and being brainwashed in your sleep does not point to the sign of being stable. The controllers of the World State use these three concepts to take control by brainwashing, teaching, and strictness. The values take away from the peoples’ individual freedoms, and makes everyone focus on what’s best for each other and the State. For example, as a “community”, they do leisure activities, such as special golf courses to make sure self-reflection is not happening. They take soma, a drug, and have orgies with each other. These are two of the activities they can do in this world. By restricting their individual freedom, the government convinces the people that this is okay. They have the orgies because
You do not get to live your life the way you want, they determine your life for you. Before you are “born”, they decide if you will be a Gamma, Delta, Epsilons, Beta, or Alpha, the classes. They’re all different, but everyone in them are the same. You have no special identity, if you are just like everyone else. They use the idea of identity as everyone being identical. The controllers teach the ways of each faction by special treatments, like alcohol insertion, to ensure that they are very stupid or very smart. To behave outside of your assigned identity is not accepted in this