Brave New World #1

-The Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre is very instrumental in creating social stability and conformity. They create different classes of embryos that eventually are grown into human beings that are designed to perform designated functions in society. The classes are referred to as Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta and Epsilon. The Gamma, Delta, and Epsilon embryos are subjected to a procedure known as the Bokanovsky's Process, which allows for 96 identical twins to be produced from a single embryo. "Bokanovsky's Process is one of the major instruments of social stability!" (Huxley 21). By creating social stability the World State has there upon created social uniformity. Equality in the simplest form of the word has not achieved because each of the different classes is regarded to be of varying importance. However, within each class everybody is the same, as exemplified with the identical twins.

- The World State has essentially made strong emotions impossible to be felt by the population. Previously the people had been “mad and wicked and miserable" but now the emotions that caused such conditions are no more and therefore social stability is further reinforced (Huxley 54). Individual’s no longer posses genuine rights but rather predestinated privileges. "'We also predestine and condition. We decant our babies as socialized human beings, as Alphas or Epsilons, as future sewage workers'" (27). We can see that each baby is given a specific life path, leaving room for very little personal rights that would include freedom of choice.

- The World State has created conformity in one way by creating vast amounts of identical twins that are designated to do identical jobs. The creation of social classes plays a larger role in the conformity of the people as well. Everybody of the same social class conforms to the social class's predestinations. The illusion of happiness has also been creating by taking away the ability to think freely through physiological conditioning and soma, a drug. People do not have to address and resolve inner conflicts that they face concerning the World State because they have been conditioned to be loyal subjects.

-The society of the World State is to be considered a dystopia. The people are not given freedom but rather have had any freedom stripped from them. The government has created an idea of happiness in addition to systematically planning every aspect of life down to profession. This society is meant to serve as an example of a dystopia that has taken the human aspect out of being human and experiencing life.