Brave New World

Brave New World

        The theme of Huxley's Brave New World is community, identity, and stability.   Each of these three themes represents what a Brave New World society needs to have in order to survive.   According to the new world controllers, community is a result of identity and stability, identity is a part of genetic engineering, and stability is what everyone desires to achieve.   These themes are represented in the book by the symbolic meaning of the phrase "Children are from bottles" and the hypnotic phrase "Everybody belongs to everybody else" (qt. Hazlitt 285).   For a better understanding it is useful to explore these themes in detail.
Community refers to the thought of one whole unit. Everyone is connected, by their actions toward each other in every day life, sexual desires, and what they do to remove the feeling of horrible emotions.   This connectedness and lie, and its effects can be seen in the character of Bernard, a person who hates what society has become.   Bernard   is disgusted by the thought of "having anyone" he says, referring to sexual relations with women.   Bernard is longing for a sense of individuality which he cannot posses in Brave New World.   "He emerged with a self-consciousness intensified to the pitch of agony.   He is   utterly miserable, and perhaps it is his own fault" (Huxley 86, ch. 5).   Thereby jeopardizing the stability of the community as a whole, near the end, it was decided that he be banished to the Falkland Islands, so that he could not tell anyone else of his individuality.   In Brave New World community is upheld and reinforced at any and all costs.
Identity is the one thing that no one person can experience.   There is no individual identity in Brave New World.   There is only a collective identity which is shared by all members of society.   Collective Identity is achieved by forcing everyone in society to conform.   It is maintained in society by making someone who has any individuality feel different almost as an outcast.   But...