hypnotic phrase "Everybody belongs to everybody else" In this novel, we confronted by a man, named Bernard, who seems to cherish and crave individualism. In Brave New World, every member of society is genetically engineered and conditioned to believe that, when the individual feels, the community reels. Yet Bernard speaks with individualistic ideas that are unheard of in this society molded around the loss of being a unique person. Bernards friend, Helmholtz Watson is also one who threatens the utopia of Brave New World. Huxley explains the friendship of the two men: What the two men shared was the knowledge that they were individuals. They are the only characters that openly discuss their personal ideas. Ideas that in a sense are considered sinful in their society. In the end Bernard and Helmholtz are ejected from society by being shipped off to some foreign island so that they will finally be free to expose their individualism. The settings of Brave New World only offer a choice between cultured slavery and primitiveness. Of the characters in Brave New World few have a mind of their own and most are not able to do things on their own. People exist to voice ideas or to manifest them in their behaviorThrough mass production of people, individualism is lost. In Brave New World, all of the people are products of mass production. Racks upon racks of numbered test tubes. [5] is the only way to describe them before their actual birth. They have no family to give them a background different from anyone elses. They all come from the same green bottles. Even when they are born, all they are given is a name chosen out of a small group of common names. In our world, having a name is one of the millions of ways we use to tell people apart and give them a feature unique to themselves. The frequency of having the same name with so many other people, takes away from a persons individuality. Sometimes, ninety-six identical twins [7] are produced. H...
