aving ninety-six people looking exactly the same has the same effect as having the same name, but to a much greater extent.In Brave New World, as children, the people go through what they call hypnopaedic conditioning. This is a process in which a phrase of moral value is repeated over and over in their sleep until they live by it. This is their form of religion because this conditioning instills the peoples values. They are taught phrases such as, ...when the individual feels, the community reels [70]. The individuals are taught to believe that they community is more important than the individual. They are trained to live in total identification with society and to shun all activities that threaten the stability of the community. A second example of how hypnopaedic conditioning shows loss of individualism is that if a person belongs to everyone else, and then he is not able to make the choice of belonging. Bernard is disgusted by the thought of "having anyone" he says, referring to sexual relations with women. Bernard is longing for a sense of individuality which he cannot posses in Brave New World. "He emerged with a self-consciousness intensified to the pitch of agony. He is utterly miserable, and perhaps it is his own fault" (86). Thereby jeopardizing the stability of the community as a whole, near the end, it was decided that he be banished to the Falkland Islands, so that he could not tell anyone else of his individuality.In Brave New World community is upheld and reinforced at any and all costs. Identity is the one thing that no one person can experience. There is no individual identity in Brave New World. There is only a collective identity, which is shared by all members of society. Collective Identity is achieved by forcing everyone in society to conform. It is maintained in society by making someone who has any individuality feel different almost as an outcast. But sometimes as in the case of the character Bernard, people in ...
