Brave New World 

 tells the story of a utopia called The World State in the year 632 AF(After Ford; AD 2540). The
World State is based on production and consumption to maintain an economic balance. Its
residents are genetically, emotionally, psychologically, and pharmacologically manipulated to
maintain this balance. The inadequacies of this world are made evident when an outsider with an
alternative worldview arrives.
In Brave New World  , babies are designed to fit into certain social castes and jobs in society
through means of technology. In Brave New World, the society that the individual babies grow
up to live in is deemed more important than an individual growing up in a biological amily with
mothers and fathers that love them. Society takes the place of mothers and fathers.
Eugenics in the World State is for the creation of a docile and submissive society which enables
a caste system with upper class Alphas running things. The movies and music in The World
State also serve to enforce caste stereotypes and behaviors. Mind control in Brave New World
is centered on creating unquestioned adherence to authority. Children are subjected to
suggestions in their sleep that everyone belongs to everyone. They are part of their
caste which is part of the larger community of the World State.
Theres no compassion or respect for the individual. There is no sense that the rulers feel that
their subjects are vessels of a divine nature. 
In Brave New World, sexual contact is socially accepted as well as socially expected. The threat
of overpopulation from gratuitous sexual activity is controlled by the common place use of
contraceptives and the sterilization of substantial percentage of the females.

What makes BNW one of the founding texts of 20th-century dystopian narratives is
its criticism of a specific geo-political development. Their all-encompassing
pleasure principle, coupled in the case of Huxley with aspects of capitalist market
economy and psychoanalysis, is nothing but Utilitarianism stripped of its moral argument and
taken to the extreme. However, the novel’s socialist criticism is still grounded in a solid and
optimistic belief in progress and Darwinist notions of evolution. BNW is still a (sub-)genre
hybrid sharing elements at least with totalitarian dystopia, “Utopia in Reverse” and anti-science
fiction. The calendar is based on Ford’s life instead of Christianity and the liturgical year, and
this illustrates that capitalist economics and technological progress have become the new
structuring principle and religion. Accordingly, Ford is worshipped like a God. Expressions such
as ‘Oh, Ford!’ instead of
‘Oh, God’. The State’s motto “COMMUNITY, IDENTITY, STABILITY” recalls the key
concepts of the French Revolution “liberty, equality, fraternity” and illustrates immediately, by
inverting the order of the terms, the perverted logic. Human beings become products of a
mechanical, rationalised and, above all, standardised process of industrialisation. The products
are five different classes – or castes – of human beings, ranging, with decreasing intelligence,
skill, physical beauty and sophistication of work, from Alpha-Plus to Epsilon-Minus Semi-
Morons. These castes are the outcome of a certain manipulation of the ovaries, and the lower
castes – Gammas, Deltas and Epsilons – are subjected to the so-called “Bokanovsky’s Process”.
Actions and reactions are thus regulated by the state, which has a strong interest in manipulating
the body politic into the perfect consumer, a mark of the economic totalitarianism of this society.
The title of Huxley’s novel is – as with so many of his works – an intertextual reference, and in
this case the phrase is taken from Shakespeare’s play The Tempest. It is “Mr. Savage” who
quotes Miranda’s line upon arriving in London. The satirical implication of this inadequate
comment, obviously targeting the new world, cuts both ways, however: Although John is
characterised as the most human – and humanist – he is at the same time a caricature of the noble
savage. He is neither good nor bad, but possesses an innate moral virtue based on emotion and
empathy. The chemical substance soma, the Greek word for “body,” is another indication of the
biopolitical “processes-regulatory” mechanisms of power. In Brave NewWorld, soma is used
as a means of quieting down the population and subduing them.

Brave New World is set in the future of our own world, in the year 2450 A.D. The planet is
united politically as the “World State.” The Controllers who govern the World State have
maximized human happiness by using advanced technology to shape and control society. People
are grown in bottles and brainwashed in their sleep during childhood. As a result, the citizens of
the World State are physically and psychologically conditioned to be happy with their place in
society and the work they are assigned.
The Savage Reservation is an area where the technologies of the World State have not been
introduced. The “savages” still give birth, believe in gods and endure physical pain and
emotional suffering.

Art and religion don’t exist in the World State. The conflict between John’s desire for love and
Lenina’s desire for sex illustrates the profound difference in values between the World State and
the humanity represented by Shakespeare’s works. Theme of individuality, there is an opression
based of “Bokanovsky’s Process” which means that most citizens of the World States are
biological duplicates of one another.