Image of a State that Focuses on Social Support and Peacekeeping in the Book Brave New World

In the book “Brave New World”, social stability is not worth the trouble they go through to have a stabilized society – in other words, perfection. While reading the story, you’ll come across a society known as the World State. In the World State, they focus on social stability and keeping everything at peace. Further into the story, the characters come across an Indian village, whose society does not focus on social stability like the World State. In the World State, they mainly emphasize genetics, sexual experimentation, and doing whatever it takes to retain a perfect and stable society, which includes teaching its members to dislike anything that may hint at a world beyond their perfect society.

From a young age, they are taught to be sexually active, and begin taking medication to adjust their moods, avoid hormonal problems, and prevent pregnancy.

As you delve deeper into “Brave New World”, it becomes apparent that the World State’s society is based primarily on maintaining social stability. A significant quote that is highlighted by Mustapha Mond is, “sacrificing real feelings and emotional attachments is the price the society has to pay for stability”. Mustapha Mond experienced feelings and real emotions that aren’t present when given their daily soma. He gave up these emotions to keep their social stability on track. In the World State, those who work against the society and threaten its stability by introducing feelings, or anything external, are immediately exiled to an island. Participating in a process known as the Bokanovsky Process is common in their society. This process is a genetic science used to produce their large number of offspring. “One egg, one embryo, one adult-normality. But a Bokanovskified egg will bud, will proliferate, will divide. From eight to ninety-six buds, and every bud will grow into a perfectly formed embryo, and every embryo into a full-sized adult.”

“Making ninety-six human beings grow where only one grew before. Progress.” This quote from the book demonstrates how they genetically engineer babies, place them in bottles, and take them through various processes to make them grow as a naturally conceived child would. While producing these genes, they create multiple babies with identical genes, sometimes more than hundreds. As young children, they are introduced to one another and are taught to experiment and learn through touch while being naked. They are taught that being sexual is healthy and good and that eliciting feelings such as “orgy porgy” or pleasure during intimacy is a high goal and achievement. They take Soma daily; medication that allows them a specific range of emotions that the World State directors believe will maintain their stability, and also serves as a birth control to avoid unnecessary pregnancies.

When a woman is found to be pregnant, they take her to the clinic that society provides for an abortion. After that, they take their soma and don’t remember the tragedy of losing their child. When it comes to people making bad decisions throughout their lives, or when someone experiences anything that relates to what’s outside the World State like non-soma emotions, which they perceive as a threat to their society, it’s seen as a danger to their stabilization. Those who put the society in danger are immediately ostracized and sent to an island. The book “Brave New World” speaks about a society that is focused on social stability, called the World State, and the sacrifices they endure to remain stable. They are eliminating all natural life experiences, making life a constant cycle of living, sex, and dying. While reading the book, one can observe that their society is restricted and kept void of the real purpose of human life. What the World State is willing to sacrifice for a stable community doesn’t give them a purpose; it’s an endless system with no objective but to keep running and never stop.

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