One of the main themes in Brave New World is how human conditioning creates a bottle, or glass box, and although some bottles are, as Mond says, "...relatively speaking, enormous..." (223), all people do live in some sort of a metaphorical "bottle." This bottle controls what they believe and how they react to different situations in life. By "bottle," Mond means certain surroundings as well as personal thoughts that remain somewhat constant. Constants can be broad, such as weather conditions that we are used to, or much more introverted like what time of day a person always goes to sleep. In a sense the bottle is our own individual culture that determines how one acts or thinks.

Constants within the bottle can be sociological, such as what is considered acceptable, and what aspects of life in the society are considered normal. What is considered "normal" and "acceptable"

To illustrate well what the "bottle" actually is, Huxley exaggerated the conditions of a "bottle" for the citizens in the Brave New World. Citizens are deliberately conditioned since birth to think, and in turn act certain ways with Hypnopaedic moral and sociological messages. In BNW, most people's bottles are much more similar than in society today since each class had the same moral and social conditioning fed to them. "Being in the bottle" for people in the BNW world state means conforming along with the rest of the masses. It means acting and recreating as everyone else in your class does. Lenina Crowne is one of the people happy being ignorant inside her bottle. She enjoys all the aspects of conditioned life, soma, feelies, solidarity service, and sex with multiple partners. Conforming is the path of least resistance for people. In life today, as it has always been, it is much easier to go along with the crowd than not.

To see how someone feels about their bottle one need only drastically change their surroundings; in a sense take them out of it. In the savage Reservation Lenina was miserable. For her, everything she saw was too horrible to bear, so she stayed on soma trips practically until she left. By taking the soma she was able to return herself to more stable surroundings, if only in her mind. For Bernard, seeing the Reservation made him realize further that he was unhappy with the conditions of the World State as it was.

In Plato's "Simile of a Cave," the cave is a bottle. For Plato, the bottle is a state of unknowing or ignorance in which most men live. The prisoners still in the cave have no idea that the

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