Castes In Brave New World

Clareson says, "They have sacrificed the past and the future for the pleasure of the moment, shortening that time between desire and consummation to nothing, or escaping time and space with soma" (Clareson 238). They try to forget what has happened with their lives and go on a soma holiday. There is a character in the story name Lenina, who has a problem with soma. She is able to take soma like anybody else in the world. When she goes to the reservation she learns to live without soma. On the reservation she see something that she can’t unseen. She tries to find a way to get her mind off of it and all she is thinking about is the drug that can make the pain and suffering go away. When she is back from the reservation she takes too much soma and puts her into a coma. She is able to release all of the bad things that have happen flied away. According to Medication and Social Control, says, “In fact, soma was such a part of their culture that it was considered unnatural to not require its use to get through the day. For example, in describing Benito Hoover, a popular member of the World State, the narrator commented, “Benito was notoriously good natured. People said of him that he could have got through life without ever touching soma”( Medication and Social Control). There is another character in the story is named John. He tries to tell people to not take their daily ration of soma and instead live without soma which would give the people freedom over the drug (Huxley 219). Obviously, the people of a Brave New World are upset with what John says and they give him treats to his life. A fight breaks out and the police control the mob by soma gas. This scene in the story, makes the realization that soma is more than just a drug. The people of the Huxley Brave New World, find that when they live without the drug for too long, they start to crave it. They also go into a state of where they start

Set at the end of the Cold War in East Germany, the movie Goodbye Lenin is the story of a young man, Alex, trying to protect his mother, Christiane, who just spent the last eight months in a coma. Christiane is a personification of the values and ideology of socialism. She carries them out in her interactions with society, and is very hopeful towards the success of the regime. During her absence, the fall of the Berlin Wall and of the German Democratic Republic leads to a radical and turbulent change in society: the fall of socialism and the triumph of capitalism. Because of the shocking effect of such information and the danger of another heart attack, Alex creates for Christiane an ideological form of socialism. Fundamental themes in the movie are the difference between ideal and reality of socialism, as well as the positive and negative aspects of the transition to free market capitalism. Such themes are carried out through a juxtaposition of an ideal society and its reality in the form of a constructed reality of socialism. This idealized version of socialism served as an oasis from the chaotic transition from a problematic socialist regime to free market capitalism.

Bernard, Lenina, and Linda all have unique characteristics that set them apart from the regular citizens of the World State Society. However, all three of them have unknowingly fallen into the conformities of the state’s maladaptive rules, preferably choosing to emanate the state’s values that do not fit their own characteristics. The World State’s guidelines and regulations pull all the citizens of the World State, including Bernard, Lenina, and Linda, into one lifestyle of living through a domino effect of conformity: the more people that conform, the more harder it is to resist the urge to conform with them. Aldous Huxley’s Brave New

Throughout our experience, we have encountered so many challenges when it comes to gender in the society. Gender is being used as a basis for stratifying people in the society. In this article, the racial caste system that used to exist in the United State is depicted. In that the black women were denied the access to justice because of their status. They were perceived to be people who do not have any right within the society and no one could believed them when they were raped by the white men because all the court judges were white men according to this article. The women were classified to be from poor background and they should remain at a low class in the society.

Hinduism reinforces the caste system, which is a "division of society into social classes that are created by birth or occupation" and it is a "prevalent social system of Hinduism" (Molloy 90). Thus, class and race are both elements affected by the caste system. There are different castes, or social classes, and there are also subcastes. Despite the caste being permanent for one's life, it's not to say that those in lower castes cannot move up to a higher caste. This is where the concept of rebirth comes into Hinduism, which is the idea that an individual can make certain choices in their lives, good or bad, and this can affect what caste they will be reborn into.

In conclusion, Bernard is interested in pursuing his personal desires, instead of conforming to society because he doesn’t like the way society is and what it is restricting people from.

Both Gattaca and Brave new world have caste systems that are based on your birth. In both stories your life is dependent on genes and how you are born. Both caste systems have groups that all citizens are categorized. “Where the alphas and betas remained until definitely bottled: while the gammas, deltas and epsilons were brought out again, after only thirty-six hours, to undergo Bokanovsky’s Process.”(Huxley pg6). The Alphas and betas are left in the incubators longer and they become smarter and their minds develop more, so since they stay

‘I’d rather be myself,’ he said. ‘Myself and nasty. Not somebody else, however jolly.’ (Huxley 60). Bernard is initially upset with something that his society does to maintain consistent satisfaction: the use of soma, a drug that instills ecstasy within its user without the inconvenient drawbacks of normal drug/alcohol usage. He is afflicted by the fact that one would use soma to essentially ignore their problems and “fake” their emotions. This dissatisfaction carries on with his viewpoint on how his society treats women, “‘Talking about her as though she were a bit of meat.’ Bernard ground his teeth. ‘Have her here, have her there.’ Like mutton. Degrading her to so much mutton” (Huxley 33). As a rule, “everyone belongs to everyone”, and Bernard believes women are treated disgracefully and only for the use of sexual pleasure. This also contributes as “laughing instead of thinking” that afflicts him, as well as, finally, the thrill of pastimes as an everyday activity outside of work, compared to individualist hobbies and mental activities (discussion): “Then what about a round of Electro-magnetic Golf at St. Andrew’s? But again, no: Bernard considered that Electro-magnetic Golf was a waste of time. ‘Then what’s time for?’ asked Lenina in some astonishment. Apparently, for going walks in the Lake District; for that was what he now proposed...‘Alone with you, Lenina.’ ‘But,

Lenina is supportive of the way matters are handled in her society. She repeats hypnopaedic sayings with pride and refuses to hear about anyone’s unhappiness with societal matters. The totalitarian rule of the world state is similar to communism and Lenina’s name is alike that of Vladimir Lenin, a famous communist ruler. Huxley alludes to this man to illustrate the ideology of the people in this time. They are all supportive of the state of the government, but they do not realize that this is only the case due to their brainwashing. If they could understand how their lives are all pretend, there would be massive consequences for those in power. In addition to this, Shakespeare is referenced frequently throughout the novel by John. Near the end of the story, John and Helmholtz suggest bringing some of Shakespeare’s works back. The Controller denies this request because the return of his tragedies would bring back social instability. He feels that the stories would only bring unhappiness and other feelings which could lead to a loss of power. When people do not know exactly what they are missing, they are unable to fight for it, resulting in more power for those in

Question 1: What does the Reservation respresent to the government and citizens of Brave New World?

The people in the Brave New World society are divided into five castes. The highest most intelligent caste is the Alphas; they are the ones that make the rules and regulations for all other lower castes to follow. Betas, Gammas, Deltas, and Epsilons follow in order as well as intelligence, level of control, and social stature. Neo-Pavlovian conditioning ensures the order of the castes. For a society to be socially stable every person in the society must feel like they belong. The caste system in Brave New World ensures that every person in the society has a function that they feel is essential to the success of the society as a whole. Since jobs are designed for each caste by the social skills they exhibit and their intelligence level, it makes it possible for very member of the society to do a job specially designed for their level of ability. Gammas and Deltas carry out menial tasks such as operating an elevator, or being a gopher. Alphas are designated jobs such as the manager of a company or a doctor. The caste-system affects the individual by making them feel needed and therefore avoiding social conflicts having to do with an individual feeling like they are left out of society.

In the Brave New World, there are 5 social classes made from the bokanovskify process. The 3 classes are based on their height and features to determine where they are casted into. The tallest and most educated are the alphas which are the most rich and educated, second is betas, third is gammas, forth is deltas, and the shortest, poorest and undereducated are epsilons. The bokanovskify process developed all of the Brave New World, each caste system was given just a certain amount of food and growth chemicals to have the embryos grow similar to each other in each caste system. This is similar to our world because we have different races, lifestyles, and wealth to each other. The citizens wealth and education affects their jobs, and lifestyles by affecting them in the different areas, like where they live.

Being born with your destiny helps a society stay perfect because everyone has a place. And if everyone has a place in the society, then everyone feels like they can contribute. In Brave New World everyone is trained (brainwashed) to feel they must contribute to the society. The brainwashing starts from day one. Babies are zapped if they go and reach for a flowers or books because they are meant to “… grow up with what the [professionals] used to call an ‘instinctive’ hatred of books and flowers” (Huxley 22). The brainwashing continues until the person dies. The society’s motto is “Community, Identity, Stability” (Huxley 1). According to Elke Brown, “the idea of "families" has been abandoned; instead, human beings are produced like cars on an assembly line. From the moment of fertilization on, each citizen has a predetermined fate and abilities according to the caste to which it will belong.” Everyone is made to be the same, since everyone is made of the same embryos. Brown compares the process of fertilization to the assembly line because cars are all made to be the same and so are people. There are five different social classes a person can be born into: Alpha, Gamma, Delta, Epsilons and, Beta; Alpha’s being the highest in the social rankings and Beta’s being the lowest. Different social classes can be defined by a person’s role in society or the career they

Brave New World begins in a strictly controlled futuristic society, known as “the World State” that is unsettlingly sterile and uncontaminated by disease. The Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning (DHC) explains the process where humans are grown inside a bottle and then specially conditioned to follow certain moral values. Each person’s sole purpose is the supply the community and be supplied for. Every job is filled by a different caste individual, each caste received different conditioning while they were growing up. The controllers of the World State want to maintain stability in their society, they do so by ensuring that comfort and happiness are always present. Throughout the novel, it is clear that through the drug “Soma”, the pre-birth conditioning and unlimited

The Brave New World “community” is divided into five castes ranging from the Alphas, who are the most intellectually superior, and ending with the Epsilons who are the most intellectually inferior. “Identity” is portrayed in the “Conditioning Center,” where babies are not born but made then separated into