However, I think that this society’s “stability” has interfered with basic humanity. If someone has stability, than they know their place and can define their self. Stability also can refer to a consistent character in a person. As I said earlier, the word makes me think of a structure standing against the wind, but it means anything that can maintain itself.

The word has a positive connotation for me. It keeps things in order, and we could not live like we do today without it. ” This shows how much stability means to this society. In the third chapter of this book, one of the World Controllers describes the World State’s view of stability: “Stability,” insisted the Controller, “stability. All citizens are trained to consume as much as possible to keep the economy stable. By planning out every human’s life before their existence, social stability is perfected. “Everyone belongs to everyone else” is one of the many phrases people accept as truth because of hypnop? ia. Sex has become a social activity instead of means for reproduction. A drug called soma relieves pain and gives powerful but pleasant hallucinations to relieve any stress or discomfort people experience. Drug use is common in this society, as well as accepted. They are conditioned for their future role in the community and their job by training and hypnop? dia, which is subliminal suggestions given to a child during their sleep. Before they are decanted (which is the alternative for being born) citizens have their whole lives planned out. Humans are created by artificial reproduction in a lab and are separated into five distinct castes, which determine the individual’s place in the society.

The World State’s motto is “Community, Identity, Stability” The entire world is one stable unit in Huxley’s book. However, in Aldous Huxley’s novel Brave New World stability is the way of life. Something stable will resist change but can maintain itself through it. Something that is stable will sustain itself for a long period of time. The word makes me think of structure, such as a large building standing against strong winds. The Dictionary defines stability as “resistance to change, dislodgement, or overthrow” or “consistency of character or purpose”. Chaos and pandemonium will erupt if there is not stability. Without it there is no structure, no organization, and no society.

When Bernard and Lenina bring the two back to London, John serves as the mouthpiece for the conflicts between the Reservation, which still abides by traditional values, and the technocracy of the World State.All human lives depend on stability. On the Reservation, they meet Linda, a former citizen of the World State who had stayed behind, and her son John, born through a “viviparous” procreation, a scandal in the World State. He is accompanied by Lenina Crowne, an attractive foetus technician. Bernard Marx, a petty and depressive psychiatrist who works for the Hatchery, is sent on a mission to the New Mexico Reservation, where “savages” live. It is a society that rests on consumerism and collectivism and has a rigid caste system. Fun Fact: Kurt Vonnegut admitted to ripping off the plot of Brave New World for Player Piano (1952), claiming that Brave New World’s plot “had been cheerfully ripped off from Yevgeny Zamyatin's 'We.''īrave New World follows a few characters as they live their lives in the seemingly utopian World State metropolis of London.Notable Adaptations: Steven Spielberg's adaptation of Brave New World for SyFy.Main Characters: Bernard Marx, Lenina Crowne, John, Linda, DHC, Mustapha Mond.Themes: Utopia/dystopia technocracy individual vs.

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