brave new world

             In our world today, we confront battles in our everyday lives that require sacrifice, emotion, and responsibility of our actions. People have financial issues, health problems and disease, fears and feelings and more that make civilization insecure and full of problems. To enforce "social stability" is conveyed in Brave New World as the technique to rid of these social and economic issues faced by today's society. People are created and multiplied in factories, and as written in the book, "We also predestine and condition. We decant our babies as socialized human beings, as Alphas or Epsilons, as future sewage workers or future World controllers"(8). Bernard Marx was an alpha, being the highest of the social groups that stabilizes for the rest of the society. But something went wrong when he felt different than the others and did not belong. In this novel written by Aldous Huxley, the character Bernard Marx is portrayed as an individual against the norm of society.
             Through predestination and rough conditioning, people accept their roles in society without question. Conditioning individuals prepares genetically, physically, and psychologically for their social destinies that stabilize the system. Everyone undergoes the full process of conditioning, but those in the upper class such as Bernard Marx receive more because they are not mass-produced. The institutionalized system of surveillance disciplines the minds and bodies of children to the system of the World State. As he grew up, he thought he had led a normal life but always thought he was unlike the rest. There has been gossip spread of Bernard, "about the alcohol in his blood-surrogate may very likely-for accidents will happen-have been true" (43). This mistake during his genetic conditioning may be the cause of his differences.
             Bernard Marx, the main character, shows that the World State's program of conditioning is not always...

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