Brave New World Individuality Analysis
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In order to become an individual, you must embrace challenges and suffering. Those experiences help define who you are. In Brave New World, Aldous Huxley delivers a powerful message/warning of what happens to a society that eliminates individuality. In the story, individuality cannot come without pain or suffering, a element that the World State Society has taken out of their civilization. Soma is used as a drug to keep everyone in society happy and from feeling any types of hardship or pain. A society that is always happy and has no pain does not have individuality. Consequently, those in the story who are the most individual feel the most pain. In this society, everyone have been genetically engineered to view individualism as negative. This causes those who have unique characteristics to be seen as outsiders, and thus are not accepted by the community. In Chapter 11, Bernard’s …show more content…
This can be a good thing because it helps one get to know themselves apart from the social body. Bernard is frustrated that he cannot “enlighten” Lenina. Lenina, like everyone else in the World State Society, from birth, has been taught the “everyone belongs to everyone else” and that individuality is wrong. Bernard wishes that his society was more individual and that people did not have to “belong to everyone else”. By trying to make Lenina understand why “not [being] so completely a part of something else” (90) is important to him, in a way Bernard is trying to have Lenina abandon what she has been taught. By the end of this scene, Bernard sorely realizes that he cannot teach her to see how individualism has some positive aspects to it. “Everyone belongs to everyone else” is a fundamental doctrine of their society and has always had a negative correspondence, and thus, Bernard gives up even trying to change her and show her how individuality could be positive because of the fact that this teaching has been engrained her in
In order to become an individual, you must embrace challenges and suffering. Those experiences help define who you are. In Brave New World, Aldous Huxley delivers a powerful message/warning of what happens to a society that eliminates individuality. In the story, individuality cannot come without pain or suffering, a element that the World State Society has taken out of their civilization. Soma is used as a drug to keep everyone in society happy and from feeling any types of hardship or pain. A society that is always happy and has no pain does not have individuality. Consequently, those in the story who are the most individual feel the most pain. In this society, everyone have been genetically engineered to view individualism as negative. This causes those who have unique characteristics to be seen as outsiders, and thus are not accepted by the community. In Chapter 11, Bernard’s …show more content…
This can be a good thing because it helps one get to know themselves apart from the social body. Bernard is frustrated that he cannot “enlighten” Lenina. Lenina, like everyone else in the World State Society, from birth, has been taught the “everyone belongs to everyone else” and that individuality is wrong. Bernard wishes that his society was more individual and that people did not have to “belong to everyone else”. By trying to make Lenina understand why “not [being] so completely a part of something else” (90) is important to him, in a way Bernard is trying to have Lenina abandon what she has been taught. By the end of this scene, Bernard sorely realizes that he cannot teach her to see how individualism has some positive aspects to it. “Everyone belongs to everyone else” is a fundamental doctrine of their society and has always had a negative correspondence, and thus, Bernard gives up even trying to change her and show her how individuality could be positive because of the fact that this teaching has been engrained her in