Brave New World, Chapter 8, The Other Place

"Yes, that's just it." The young man nodded. "If one's different, one's bound to be lonely. They're beastly to one. Do you know, they shut me out of absolutely everything? When the other boys were sent out to spend the night on the mountains–you know, when you have to dream which your sacred animal is–they wouldn't let me go with the others; they wouldn't tell me any of the secrets. I did it by myself, though," he added. "Didn't eat anything for five days and then went out one night alone into those mountains there." He pointed" (Huxley 137).

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In this excerpt, John lives a completely different lifestyle compared to everyone else. In Brave New World, being different is looked upon as weird or un normal. The people are happy because they are on soma. They have no signs of individuality unlike John who believes that everyone should have knowledge and feelings. People are masked by a fake perspective of a perfect society. They are completely blinded. However, John believes that people would be truly happy in this other place. He dreams that there is a better place where everyone will be able to control their own thoughts and feelings without restrictions. 

Brave New World, Chapter 7, Perfection

"Civilization is Sterilization," Bernard went on, concluding on a tone of irony the second hypnopaedic lesson in elementary hygiene."But these people have never heard of Our Ford, and they aren't civilized" (Huxley 110).

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"Civilization is sterilization" was used to keep a idealistic and harmonious society. In Brave New World, society was sterilized. The people are manipulated and controlled. They are made in test tubes and are not able to reproduce. Every human being was placed in a different caste without choice. Society is sterilized in order to create a perfect civilization. However, the more one tries to create a flawless community, the more danger is created. 

Brave New World, Chapter 6, Strong Feelings

"Two hundred repetitions, twice a week from fourteen to sixteen and a half," was all his comment. The mad bad talk rambled on. " I want to know what passion is," she heard him saying." I want to feel something strongly." When the individual feels, the community reels," Lenina pronounced" (Huxley 94). 

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This quote means that society is ranked over the individual. In Brave New World, everyone is forced to be happy by taking the drug, soma. For example, Bernard wants to feel something strongly and wants to know what passion is. However, this is looked as a threat to society especially if an individual is wanting or wishes the opposite of what society needs. 

Brave New World, Chapter 5, People

"Everyone works for everyone else. We can't do with out any one. Even Epsilons are useful. We couldn't do without Epsilons. Every one works for every one else. We can't do without any one..." (Huxley 74).

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In Brave New World, society is raised in a lifestyle so that they know what they will do. The people do not have any experiences because they were put into specific castes since they were born. Everyone is trained to work for each other. However, in Brave New World the people are controlled into doing something that they are forced to do. No one knows or has the ability to do anything else. Since they were born in the bottle, they all conformed in knowing how to do one thing. The people do not have recollection of any experiences.

Brave New World, Chapter 4, An Outsider

"The mockery made him feel an outsider; and feeling an outsider he behaved like one, which increased the prejudice against him and intensified the contempt and hostility aroused by his physical defects. Which in turn increased his sense of being alien and alone. A chronic fear of being slighted made him avoid his equals, made him stand, where his inferiors were concerned, self-consciously on his dignity" (Huxley 65).

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Bernard was always an outsider. In this society, it is wrong to be one. The people in Brave New World are made to look the same and be the same. No one is allowed to be different. Bernard avoided everyone because he felt that he wouldn't be accepted since he looked dissimilar. His physique was hardly any better than the average Gamma and he was eight centimeters shorter than the standard Alpha height. People assumed that when he was in the bottle something went wrong through the Bokanovsky's process.

Brave New World, Chapter 3, History is Bunk

""You all remember," said the Controller, in his strong deep voice, you all remember, I suppose, that beautiful and inspired saying of Our Ford's: History is bunk. History," he repeated slowly," is bunk."" (Huxley 34). 

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The Resident Controller for Western Europe, Mustafa Mond, repeats that history is wack. The Director nervously explains that the students have not learned any of the history. History is bunk was inspired by Henry Ford. He believes that thinking about history is not necessary and that you should live in the present instead of the past. This explains why the students do not learn anything from past history. Individuals should have the ability to know events from the past in order to prevent bad things from happening again. The people in Brave New World are not given the opportunity to have individual thoughts and ideas. 

Brave New World, Chapter 2, Alpha Beta Gamma Delta Epsilons

"Alpha children wear grey. They work much harder than we do, because they're so frightfully clever. I'm really awfully glad I'm a Beta, because I don't work so hard. And then we are much better than the Gammas and Deltas. Gammas are stupid. They all wear green, and Delta children wear khaki. Oh no, I don't want to play with Delta children. And Epsilons are still worse. They're too stupid to be able" (Huxley 28). 

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In this excerpt, a recorded voice is repeatedly saying the same thing. The sleeping children are whispered this message over and over again. It states that Alpha children work the hardest compared to the lower caste like Epsilons. This lesson is repeated hundreds of times throughout the weeks.The society in Brave New World does not allow people to have individual thoughts. They are not allowed to think for themselves since birth. Their original thoughts are taken away and instead their emotions are altered. Each individual grow up to hating or loving certain things by conformity and by adaptation. 

Brave New World, Chapter 1, Bokanovsky's Process

"We also predestine and condition. We decant our babies as socialized human beings, as Alphas or Epsilons, as future sewage workers or future" (Huxley 13). 

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Every human is mass produced by a process called Bokanovksy. This process uses surgically removed ovaries and technology to form embryos. Each embryo that undergoes Bokanovsky's process is first placed into bottles and then placed into different groups called the Alphas, the Betas, the Gammas, the Deltas and the Epsilons. Since birth, these embryos are predestined to fit in a category. When they are born, the fetus undergoes treatments that will conform them into their groups. The Director and Mr. Foster operate these individuals into their destiny. Every individual are treated based on their classification. The people in Brave New World are not treated as individuals. They do not have freedom or the choice to decide what they want to believe and what they want to be. Although it may be safe to have a somewhat perfect society through placement and conformity, individuality is definitely not a threat to a society. Individuality creates new views and new ideas.