![]() ![]() Limiting the intelligence of each person to fit their future job is one way this society makes them happy. The fundamental tenet behind the society is utilitarianism, which describes a society that seeks to create the maximum happiness. "Stability" occurs through the limitations placed on the intelligence of each group. Huxley shows how "identity" comes from the Conditioning Centre through the selection of the embryos into each of five groups. Huxley generates "community" by dividing the population into segments, where the Alphas serve as intellectual superiors and Epsilons function as pure menial labor. The social motto "Community, Identity, Stability" frames this social structure. Huxley creates a society that frowns on individual creativity and that only welcomes those who conform. The regime must then ensure that people are happy all the time, be able to control the behavior of each individual, and ensure that independent thinkers are forbidden from disturbing the social fabric. Huxley stated in Brave New World Revisited that the only way to create a permanently stable society is for a totalitarian regime to have absolute power. While few critics have called the governmental regime "totalitarian" in nature, Huxley explicitly describes it as such. The idea of totalitarian social stability occurs first in this chapter. ![]() Thus, the Alphas represent the intellectually superior group, followed by the Betas, and continuing down to the Epsilons, who have little to no intelligence. ![]() ![]() The Centre conditions all the non-Alpha and Beta embryos for their future status in society by dividing them into Gammas, Deltas, and Epsilons. Only the Alphas and Betas come from single eggs that are not budded and hence have no twins. The society contains a five-tiered caste system that ranks Alphas and Betas on top. Predestinators then decide the future function of each embryo within the society, essentially assigning a future job to each human. The scientists take an ovary, remove and fertilize the eggs, force the eggs to bud up to ninety-six times, and subsequently grow the embryos in bottles. The students view various machines and techniques used to promote the production and conditioning of embryos. A group of students receives a tour of the facilities by the Director. The novel begins at the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Center, a production factory for human beings. The underlying principle of the regime is utilitarianism, or maximizing the overall happiness of the society. The world has submitted to domination by World Controllers, whose primary goal is to ensure the stability and happiness of society. Again, Huxley hints at the possibility of true feelings despite conditioning but undercuts the hope in the end.Brave New World occurs six hundred years in the future. shows himself very human in the long-term emotional effects of his traumatic situation. In this, the character and his public humiliation recall traditional unmasking scenes in fiction involving corrupt religious or other well-respected social figures. Bernard's exposure of the D.H.C.'s relationship with Linda and John, their son, gains most of its energy and comic force from the D.H.C.'s hypocritical denunciation of anti-social behavior. With the D.H.C., Huxley emphasizes the connection of fear of discovery with hypocrisy. The unexpected reminder of the Savage Reservation catches him off guard, leaving him vulnerable, first to fear of exposure and then to Bernard's plan for revenge. keeps the memory of Linda to himself for all the years he climbs the career ladder. His sadness at losing Linda and the guilt he feels for leaving her represent truly human responses in an inhuman world. Yet, paradoxically, he has had an intense experience of love and regret that has changed him inwardly forever. Respectful to superiors, snappish - even cruel - with anti-social inferiors like Bernard, he upholds the highest standards of brave new world morality. The Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning - or "Tomakin," as Linda calls him - seems at first a strictly conventional man, absolutely conservative in his outlook and demeanor. ![]()
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