Topic > Universal Individuality in Adlous Huxley's Brave New World

Every society in the world offers different jobs and roles for an individual to succeed and define. Whether you are a street cleaner, a doctor, a teacher or a celebrity, you have distinct qualities that define someone. Adlous Huxley wrote Brave New World, a dystopian novel based on a utopian society with the ultimate goal of universal happiness. The futuristic novel was written in the midst of the Great Depression. Huxley may have created a society through his work to abolish problems such as unemployment, debt, poverty and war, but there was no humanity and there was certainly no individuality. The government has deprived everyone of any possibility of being an individual by limiting religion, literature, the family unit, and control over one's life. The government genetically fixes itself on a life before each citizen of the caste is born, controlling every detail about them, including the level of society to which they belong. will belong to. Every person is born into the Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta or Epsilon caste: Alpha is the highest rank and Epsilon is the lowest rank. The caste system is the only thing that distinguishes one human being from another, as represented when Lenina says: “Everyone works for everyone else. We can't do it without anyone. Even the Epsilons...” (Huxley 91) Alphas may be the smartest and most beautiful, but they have the same talent for avoiding any competition. Epsilons are the exact opposite, they are the least attractive and intelligent of the reserve. Helmholtz Watson, intelligent and attractive, is the perfect example of an Alpha. Although one group may be more superior than the other, no one feels inadequate because everyone knows that they are contributing to the social and economic prosperity of society. Brave New World... middle of paper... dual in the New World you must conform or die. Mond, as well as the rest of the world state, believes that “The whole premise of this form of utilitarianism is that people should be happy and live in a stable society. Therefore, everything that could interfere with happiness should be prohibited. "(Smith) In Brave New World, the totalitarian government takes full control over humanity, resulting in a total absence of humanity because there is no individuality. All an individual can do is obey what is expected of them. This scarcity of identity has led to a society of false happiness. People are defined and shaped into who they are by the difficulties they face and the way they navigate their journey. Life, in fact, is the ability to grow or change sadness, illness or any problematic situation; there is no possibility of hope, of defining oneself and experiencing true happiness.