The Contradictory Pillars of the World State The three pillars of the World State in Aldous Huxley’s book Brave New World, community, identity, and stability, are words that label the problem in society rather than sustain the society. Aldous Huxley uses this phrase to represent the faults of the World State, and to apply a warning to the reader of the issues that develop because of how these ideas carry in the novel. Community is thought to be a connection between people that share a similar characteristic, but, in the World State, there is no such personal connection. Each person is artificially placed into a certain caste from which they receive a job, giving them a social identity, but not a personal one created by the person themselves.
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A modern day impression of identity is becoming the person that you truly are and who you truly want to be, but this is the opposite of what identity is in the World State. Identity in the World State is your social background and the occupation you have because of said background. In the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre humans are created by machines and other humans to fulfill a certain persona. On each test tube, which contains a baby in the process of developing, the “Heredity, date of fertilization, membership of Bokanovsky group” (Huxley 10) are identified in writing. Every aspect of a human’s life is determined before their “birth” and because these aspects are determined before birth, the people do not create their own personality. John tells a Controller of the World State, Mustapha Mond, that “’I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin’” (Huxley 240) exhibits how John comes to the conclusion that no one has their personal ideas, only conditioned ones The character of John is how Aldous Huxley exposes his message to the reader about not creating your own identity. He teaches that not one person should be “’Getting rid of everything unpleasant instead of learning to put up with it’” (Huxley 238) because it is part of the beauty of being human. Identity in this book is everyone being “’physico-chemically equal’” (Huxley 47) with no identity that is created for yourself. Along with community and identity there is one more that is contradictory in Brave New World, and that is
A modern day impression of identity is becoming the person that you truly are and who you truly want to be, but this is the opposite of what identity is in the World State. Identity in the World State is your social background and the occupation you have because of said background. In the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre humans are created by machines and other humans to fulfill a certain persona. On each test tube, which contains a baby in the process of developing, the “Heredity, date of fertilization, membership of Bokanovsky group” (Huxley 10) are identified in writing. Every aspect of a human’s life is determined before their “birth” and because these aspects are determined before birth, the people do not create their own personality. John tells a Controller of the World State, Mustapha Mond, that “’I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin’” (Huxley 240) exhibits how John comes to the conclusion that no one has their personal ideas, only conditioned ones The character of John is how Aldous Huxley exposes his message to the reader about not creating your own identity. He teaches that not one person should be “’Getting rid of everything unpleasant instead of learning to put up with it’” (Huxley 238) because it is part of the beauty of being human. Identity in this book is everyone being “’physico-chemically equal’” (Huxley 47) with no identity that is created for yourself. Along with community and identity there is one more that is contradictory in Brave New World, and that is