Essay on Bnw Argument Paragraph

Submitted By Violeta2002
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Brave New World
Argument Paragraph
Violeta Vukoje

When a government is given complete control over the society, people lose their individuality and creativity. In Brave New World, the director has complete control over the society and how humans are created and for what purpose. This idea of chemically creating individuals and further, conditioning them to all think and act the same results in the lack of individuality and creativity. Individuality is the quality and character of a person that distinguishes them from others of the same kind. In this society, the humans lack that individuality while they are all classified as either Alphas, Betas, Gammas, Deltas, or Epsilons. While controlled to think and act the same, they lose that freedom of creativity and ability to think for themselves. They act as robots for the society in which they live in. As the director is touring his students around the Hatchery and Conditioning Centre and carefully explaining how they chemically create the humans, he says to them “‘Community, Identity, Stability,’ Grand Words. ‘If we could bokanovskify indefinitely the whole problem would be solved. Solved by standard Gammas, unvarying Deltas, uniform Epsilons. Millions of identical twins. The principle of mass production at last applied to biology.’” (Page 5, Huxley) The grand motto of this society is “Community, Identity, Stability,” and the belief of everyone working for everyone else to create that ultimate stability. It is evident that the director has complete control because he chooses who becomes a Gamma, a Delta, an Epsilon, and so forth. He says ‘The principle of mass production is at last applied to biology.” The government, being the director, is predominant in the process of how the humans are replicated and he firmly believes in the idea of mass production. While using this method to create the humans and making “Millions of identical twins,” the humans of this society have limited individuality. They think and work like everyone else towards that main goal of stability. They are not given the creativity to think for themselves because they are created to work for everyone else. Further in the tour of the London Hatchery, the Director begins to explain the philosophy behind conditioning as he says “Books and loud noises, flowers and electric shocks – already in the infant