While Lenina goes on her date with Henry, Bernard attends his biweekly Solidarity Service. Bernard is dissatisfied because he is self-conscious about being small, while Helmholtz is so exceptional at everything he does that he’s begun to feel stifled. Bernard then visits his friend Helmholtz Watson. Later, in the elevator, Lenina accepts Bernard's invitation to accompany him to the Savage Reservation in New Mexico. Acknowledging the need to become more promiscuous, Lenina decides to also date Bernard Marx, even though he is a bit small and strange for an alpha.īernard, meanwhile, is outraged as he listens to Henry Foster and another man have a perfectly “normal” discussion about 'having' Lenina. In the Hatchery changing rooms, Lenina Crowne, a nurse, is criticized by her friend Fanny for only dating one man, Henry Foster. He lectures the students on the World State's creation and its success in creating happiness and stability by eliminating from society all intense emotions, desires, and relationships. The students and the Director get a special treat when Mustapha Mond, one of the 10 World Controllers, joins the tour. The Director calls such conditioning “the secret to all happiness and virtue.” Each caste is conditioned differently, but all castes are conditioned to seek instant gratification, to be sexually promiscuous, to engage in economic consumption, and to use the drug soma to escape from all unpleasant experiences. The Director also shows how each individual is conditioned both before and after 'birth' to conform to the moral rules of the World State and to enjoy his or her predetermined job. The Director shows how the five castes of World State society are created, from Alphas and Betas, who lead the society, down to the physically and intellectually inferior Deltas, Gammas, and Epsilons, who do menial labor. The Brave New World strives for, and achieves, stability and civilized behavior from their citizens by enforcing the states motto.The Director of the Central London Hatcheries leads a group of students on a tour of the facilities, where babies are produced and grown in bottles (birth is non-existent in the World State). By using community, identity, and stability as techniques they reach the Brave New World’s state motto. The stability is achieved successfully through the environment that they have created for their world. Totalitarian government also enforces their stability. “No civilization without social stability.No social stability thou individual stability” (Huxley 42). The awareness of each caste knowing that every other caste is dependent of each other enforces stability as well. Soma is also a very big part of the stability in the Brave New World. By making everyone in each caste type equal, they also create a kind of stability. Through conditioning, the clones are adjusted to the conditions of their jobs, making them satisfied with their jobs, causing stability in the work environment. The state achieves stability by creating a stable environment for the people of the Brave New World. Stability is the last step in the process to reach the state’s motto.Stability is ultimately achieved through immunity and identity. The identities of each caste helps to keep them separate but also helps to keep them a stable community. The lower castes are all clones, but each caste has a separate identity. They all wear green, and Delta Children wear Khaki” (Huxley 27). Each caste can be identified by the specific color that they are assigned to wear. The Alphas are also conditioned to identify with only one specific job. Again, the caste system makes up a part of the state motto by giving each caste a separate identity.The lower castes of clones are intentioned to identify with a specific job and all the aspects of that job.

Identity is also a very affective technique used to achieve and encompass the state’s motto. ” (Huxley 74) This action Of community helps to enable the identity and stability part of the state motto. We can’t do without anyone.Įven Epsilons are useful. Every caste works to benefit each other, bringing them all together as a stable community. All clones are separated into many groups by their caste to work as one organized community.

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