Brave New World- Journal #1

TOPIC A

"'And if you were an Epsilon,' said Henry, 'your conditioning would have made you no less thankful that you weren't a Beta or an Alpha.' [...] Everybody's happy now.' 'Yes, everybody's happy now,' echoed Lenina. They had heard the words repeated a hundred and fifty times every night for twelve years." (Huxley, 75).

This passage displays the main aspects of the society found in Brave New World. The social classes including Epsilon, Beta and Alpha define what activities that person enjoys, their favorite pastimes, their favorite jobs, their favorite color, their relationships and everything else they do. All of the people have been conditioned for their specific place in the world, their job and their social class. It is imperative to the society that everyone is perfectly made to enjoy whatever they are predestined to become. The basis of society is fitting in a certain social class, and being conditioned to love that position and be extremely happy. All that is done in the society is done to be happy, from the conditioning, to the drug soma, to the entertainment. It is all of that culture's goal to be perfectly content and pleased with what their life is and what it will become. Many of the people could not even imagine being placed in a different social class or group, showing how ingrained their place in society is to them. This happens due to the extensive conditioning that occurs has embryos and children.