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    Afraid New WorldAldous Huxley's “Brave New World” highlights the theme of society and individualism. Huxley uses the future world and its inhabitants to represent the conflict over how replacing stability in place of individualism produces harmful side effects. Every society has individuals with varied jobs and professions and diverse personalities and thoughts. Each member contributes to society in their own way. However, when people's individuality is suppressed, the entire concept of humanity is destroyed. In Huxley's Brave New World, the concept of individualism is lost due to hyperbolized physical and physiological training, the artificial system of birth and caste, and the censorship of religion and literature by a repressive government. The Future World Government uses various techniques to ensure that the citizens of the World State are controlled and compliant. Each citizen is imprisoned in their own mind, through the use of several psychological and physical devices. They are conditioned to act a certain way or have certain thoughts and ideas. People who do not follow the rules are deported to distant destinations. Before the artificial birth of each child, he or she has already undergone conditioning to ensure compliance. The director of hatcheries and conditioning states: “All conditioning aims at this: to make people love their inevitable destiny” (Huxley 87-8). People's minds are programmed to love the work and lifestyle assigned to them. Even after their birth, they continue to follow the motto of the World State: “Community, Identity, Stability” (21). This motto is extremely ironic because it contains the words identity and stability, as the World State has sacrificed identity for stability. Shock the...... middle of paper ......processed through various techniques in the World State. Citizens unknowingly conform and are prisoners of their own minds, trapped inside by government regulation and control. Massive batches of clones are born artificially effortlessly, requiring all the same drugs and proxies to survive. Even clothing is regulated, making it impossible to distinguish between individuals, only the castes in which they are placed. World State censorship places the iron curtain between individuality and conformity by essentially erasing all expression or free thought. Society is truly blinded by its own ego, because the system created is not a society, but mindless followers of a tyrannical government. Amid all the disillusionment created by the facade of social stability, there is no way for individualism or freedom to prevail in Brave New World..