Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

“Community, identity and stability,” is a quote said several times throughout the novel, Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. The three words was something the people in the World State lived by. There is a political meaning behind the motto although the novel doesn’t come right out and say it. Community means that everyone in World State comes together and make it better. Identity means that everyone is different. The book us referring to the Alphas, Betas, etc. Stability means that as a whole they are happy and able to live on with their way of life. The politics in the novel are relating to what was happening in the world during the time it was written.

Brave New World discusses creating a genetically perfect race of humans which is eugenics. The idea came from what was going on in Britain at the time because they were studying eugenics. “Aldous Huxley composed Brave New World in tile context of the Depression and the eugenics movement in Britain. Today his novel is best known as satirical and predictive, but an additional interpretation emerges from Huxley's nonfiction writings in which the liberal humanist expressed some surprising opinions about eugenics, citizenship, and meritocracy.”(Woiak) In the beginning of the novel Huxley explains the process in which they undergo to create this unique race of individuals. “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.” (Huxley) This process is compared to eugenics because the outcome is perfect babies.

The World State is somewhat like a totalitarian government with Mustapha Mond (the Controller), controlling everyone. "’And I've got plenty more,’ Mustapha Mond continued, resuming his seat. ‘A whole collection

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