In Brave New World, Aldous Huxley explores this social conditioning in the opening chapters. The Director explains, "They'll be safe from books and botany all their lives- (Huxley 22). This statement is ironic to today's society. Books and nature are ways of enriching one's knowledge; however, because these tools do not promote spending money and may be used to disrupt the stability of the brave new world, they are forbidden. Once again, the personal freedoms are a sacrifice for a greater level of stability for the society. Artificial insemination is also used in order to achieve a level of uniformity. Huxley expresses, "Bokanovsky's Process is one of the major instruments of social stability- (7). Terms such as parents and birth are no longer used; instead, the scientific technique of the Bokanovsky Process creates offspring. The conformity and lack of individualism as a result of this process leads to a lack of personality; however, this conformity is a necessary part of greater stability in the brave new world. In 1984, these tools of governmental power are utilized in Oceania as well. Orwell portrays, "By careful early conditioning the natural feeling [of sexual acts] had been driven out of them- (59). Though conditioning is used for the destruction of different tendencies than that in Brave New World, it is still used in order to achieve stability. Orwell also illustrates the ending of pregnancies in society. He writes, "All children were to begotten by artificial insemination and brought up in public institutions (57). The use of public institutions in order to raise children allows for a universal upbringing. In turn, rebels that disrupt the strength of the government are able to be extinguished. Personality and individualism are large sacrifices for stability, illustrated by these techniques of artificial insemination and social conditioning. .
Furthermore, both of these dystopian treatises portray a society that censors both thoughts and literature.