... 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. It is especially difficult when the community is prioritized over the individuals. In Novels for students, John Hochman provides ... such conditions. If one can escape the unwanted emotions of everyday life, then it becomes tough to develop a personal identity. Philo M. Buck Jr. writes in an excerpt that, " "Soma" and "Feelies...

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... a mere individual; it strikes at Society itself." (pg. 148). The government clearly believes that the individual should subordinate to the group for the good of society. The other theme of Brave New World is the cost of such a system is high. There is a good side to this system. There is no war or poverty and a small amount of disease or social unrest. The ... fill us with anguish: How to avoid their becoming definitively real?" (epigraph). The people living in the World State must give up love, family, science, art, religion, and history. A quote that supports this is telling the Savag...

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