David Grayson once said that Commandment Number One of any truly civilized society is this: Let people be different. Difference, or individuality, however, may not be possible under a dictatorial government. Aldous Huxley?s satirical novel Brave New World shows that a government-controlled society often places restraints upon its citizens, which results in a loss of social and mental freedom. The conditioning of the citizens, the categorical division of society, and the censorship of art and religion carry out these methods of limiting human behavior.

Conditioning the citizens to like what they have and reject what they do not have is an authoritative government?s ideal way of maximizing efficiency. The citizens will consume what they are told to, there will be no brawls or disagreements and the state will retain high profits from the earnings. People can be conditioned chemically and physically prior to birth and psychologically afterwards.

The novel, Brave New World, takes place in the future, 632 A. F. (After Ford), where biological engineering reaches new heights. Babies are no longer born viviparously; they are now decanted

Stability is a goal in every society. It may be achieved by the cloning of citizens. Advances in biological research in the New World allow one embryo to separate into ninety-six individual embryos by means of the Bokanovsky Process, an advanced method of cloning. Embryos destined to be the lower classes (Gamma, Delta and Epsilon) are cloned, and the cloning ensures social stability of the lower classes. "Essentially ? bokanovskification consists of a series of arrests of development ? the egg responds by budding" (Huxley, 4). This creates a standardized form of operation, with "ninety-six identical twins working ninety-six identical machines" (Huxley, 5). The Bokanovsky Process provides social stability by having dozens of identical twins to work, eat and live together, where there would be no brawls or conflicts. As the Director of Hatchery and Conditioning says, "Bokanovsky?s Process is one of the major instruments of social stability" (Huxley, 5). While the Bokanovsky Process outlined in Huxley?s novel may have seemed improbable when he wrote the novel in 1932, the scientific advances in genetic engineering have taken a giant leap. In "July 1996, a team of Scottish scientists produced the first live birth of a healthy sheep cloned from an adult mammal". The cloning of the citizens forms a standardized population with a lack of social freedom and no liberty to shape their own paths of life. The cloned sheep, Dolly, brings the modern world one step closer to Huxley?s eugenic state.

in bottles passed through a 2136-meter assembly line. Pre-natal conditioning of embryos is an effective way of limiting human behavior. Chemical additives can be used to control the population not only in Huxley?s future society, but also in the real world today. This method of control can easily be exercised within a government-controlled society to limit population growth and to control the flaws in future citizens. In today?s world, there are chemical drugs, which can help a pregnant mother conceive more easily or undergo an abortion. In the New World, since there is no need to make every female fertile, only "as many as thirty per cent of the female embryos ? develop normally. The others get a dose of male sex hormone ? Result: they are decanted as freemartins?" (Huxley, 10). Freemartins are sterile females who sometimes grow beards. Physical conditioning can also be used to prepare the unborn embryo for its predestined future. The future rocket-plane engineers receive physical conditioning where a "special mechanism kept their containers in constant rotation ? To improve their sense of balance" (Huxley, 14). The conditioning is Huxley?s message to the world "that you could dominate people by social, educational and pharmaceutical methods" (Bedford, 249). The babies can be preset on a course of life before they even take their first breaths, taking away their freedom to choose their future destinies.

"Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known", said Oscar Wilde. Individualism, however, is not p

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