What Is Individualism In Brave New World

Aldous Huxley wrote of a futuristic society in his book entitled “Brave New World” where individualism and morals had been eradicated. The members of this city were no longer conceived, but mixed in labs to ensure that the best traits and combinations of genes were prevalent. A single fertilized egg produced thousands of identicals to establish a steady exponential population growth. To the government, people were no longer people, but numbers. The society as a whole lived, thought, and valued the same things. Growing up in this culture, Lenina found it natural to accept this, but the reader could see the horror of the situation. By showing how addicted to drugs, judgemental, and sheltered Lenina was, Huxley clearly illustrated that people need to stick to their morals and value their differences, or else they will be easily swayed by society’s influences.
This soma was distributed and sold in many different ways and settings to ensure that everyone had easy access to it. Rather than dealing with problems like sadness or anger, Lenina was influenced by her culture to drug them away. “A gramme is better than a damn” (55), was often quoted by Lenina and her society to signify this idea. Whenever the people started to give a “damn” about something, they were prompted to take a gramme of the soma to drown the issue. The addiction that plagued Lenina served as proof of how the surroundings she lived in shaped the decisions she made. Since the people no longer thought for themselves, they were condemned to being copies of all those around