"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).
Disagree, Individuality is a threat to a harmonious society.
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.
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