ong those who represent difference. Bernard Marx, an Alpha citizen, has a physical deficiency. He is short and small, "eight centimetres short of the standard Alpha height" (Huxley 57), and is often neglected for his deformed figure. While Marx is sharing an elevator with two coworkers, "Henry Foster and the Assistant Director of Predestination rather pointedly turned their backs on Bernard Marx" (Huxley 29). Bernard himself says that, "I am I, but wish I wasn’t" (Huxley 57). This self-hatred indicates that even in the most ordered, stable society, injustice still occurs in the form of discrimination. The right to choose no longer exists in an autocratic society where social freedom is eliminated by the distinct categorical division of citizens."History is more or less bunk" (Rae 53), said Henry Ford. This ideology is taken to extreme measures in the world state and in many totalitarian nations where censorship of art and religion completely conceals the past and eliminates the freedoms of thought and speech. People live in the present with no knowledge of history, and those who explore certain new, prohibited ideas are censored."Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known", said Oscar Wilde. Individualism, however, is not permitted in the world state where "everyone works for everyone else" (Huxley 81). Many pieces of literature are eliminated, and censorship is applied everywhere to attain stability. Without the books to give the people ideas, and with the conditioning of the mind, no one would attempt a revolution or an uprising. No one in the world state would recognize the title Othello, or the name William Shakespeare, no one but the people who make the rules, the World Controllers. The state did not give excuses for their actions, and the citizens simply accepted them. In the world state, not only are the old books gone, the new ones are also censored. The World Controller residing over Western E...
