assigning class status. In this way, the leaders of Utopia are also able to.
keep the social classes balanced in the way they felt benefited everyone.
Although the reader sees some dissipation of social classes in modern.
society, in Utopia, the class distinctions were palpable. A five-tiered caste.
system is maintained which ranks Alphas and Betas on top followed by.
Gammas, Deltas, and the semi-moronic, ubiquitous Epsilons. The motto.
"Community, Identity, Stability" frames the Utopian social structure. In Huxley's.
"community" each tier has its purpose in the society, from the Alphas who serve.
as intellectuals to the plebeian Epsilons who function as the pure humble.
laborers. "Identity" is established in the Conditioning Center through the.
separation of the embryos into one of five classes and "stability" is insured.
through the limitations placed on the intelligence of each group. Whereas in.
today's society a person's outer appearance and garb may not reveal his wealth.
and status, in Utopian society, a person's uniform is the badge of his class.
".eight-month-old babies, all exactly alike (a Bokanovsky group, it was evident).
and all (since their caste was Delta) dressed in khaki." (20). This very visible.
reiteration of one's status serves to further condition the tiers to non-interaction,.
something that modern society conceives of as a throwback to unenlightened.
times. "Beneath them lay the buildings of the Golf Club-the huge Lower Caste.
barracks and, on the other side of a dividing wall, the smaller houses reserved.
for Alpha and Beta members." (73).
Indeed our public education system is a tribute to a more enlightened.
view of society. Free education is the means by which people of varying.
backgrounds and status intermingle. It is also the vehicle for ensuring open.
access to the tools necessary to ensure one's success in whatever your chosen.
profession. The children of Utopia do not enjoy such ideals of education.
