"Bokanovsky's Process is one of the major instruments of social stability"(7). Creating human beings from test tubes enables the government to decide the caste of each citizen. The caste system leads to social stability. Social stability in a perfect society keeps the backbone of the state erect and in charge. In Brave New World, Aldous Huxley portrays a utopian society that supports conformity.
Conformity is the condition or fact of being in harmony or agreement. By the precise regulation of supply to demand and rigid control of the numbers and types of citizens, stability is maintained. Aldous Huxley expresses the World State's motto as, "Community, Identity, Stability"(1). Everyone is made to fit into a specific caste, fill a specific role, and act a certain way. Depending on their caste, they are put through various types of conditioning and solely raised by World State officials. No one who lives in the world state tries to go against the officials and raise new ideas. Richard H. Beckham states, "The members of each caste are mass produced to the specifications of assembly line uniformity"(67). The assembly line process is the beginning of many steps that unify the citizens. All the basic rules of the society that are learned as a child through hypnopaedia, or sleep teaching, are expected to be carried out by everyone. The Director of Hatcheries adds to the theme of conformity by saying, "That is the secret of happiness and virtue-liking what you've got to do. All conditioning aims at that: making people like their inescapable social destiny"(16). The characters are so conditioned that .
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they go along with their predestined life. The state provides distractions and entertainment to keep them happy with their job. Stability, which in insured by a conformed society, is the ultimate and primal need according to one of the World Controllers. .
The conformity in Brave New World makes it difficult for the characters to be unique.