It is especially difficult when the community is prioritized over the individuals. In Novels for students, John Hochman provides and overview of how the book is an argument for individualism:.
One special product that is mass-produced on assembly lines in A.F. 632 is the human being. To insure that here are enough-but not too many- workers and consumers, human life is carefully controlled from conception to death by two methods: outright control of the numbers and types of babies born and subconscious conditioning of people's thoughts. Factories with conveyer belts containing bottled embryos of the five preordained castes are inoculated against all future diseases, treated with hormones and proteins, and placed in different levels of intelligence and different physical attributes, depending on the caste for which they have been selected. The factory, The Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre, makes viviparous reproduction obsolete. Children are therefore bred to work and associate only with people in their caste; they can never be corrupted by parents who might pass on views that are counter to the ethics of production and consumption.(65).
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Life in Brave New World is merely a reflection of everyone else's. Each caste has a "set of directions" that comes with them at birth and has the expectancy to follow them. If not, one will be sent away. John, who grew up outside the World State, is unable to accept and understand the views and laws of the society. He is consequently sent away to a remote lighthouse. The state does not want anyone who will express his or her own personal feelings or beliefs. In an excerpt discussing uniformity, Peter Edgerly Firchow states, "Character, after all, is shaped by suffering, and the new world state has abolished suffering in favor of a continuous, soma-stupefied, infantile "happiness""(70).
