Brave New World First Reading Entry

In Brave New World, equality and conformity is created by the social structure that the World State creates. This system works to place people in certain castes, either Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, or Epsilon, that will exclude them from all other castes. Gamma, Delta, and Epsilon undergo the Bokanovsky Process according to their class and develops 96 identical human beings. This cloning process facilitates social stability in the way that the clones produced are predestined to perform identical tasks at identical machines. The guiding motto of the World State is "Community, Identity, Stability." The point in the social castes are to exclude them from all other castes and to have them thinking all uniformly about who they are, what they do, and how they live. Conflict is completely eliminated because people are put in a social status that they are accustomed to being content with. There is no reason for any conflict because their independence has been taken away without them being aware of it. Happiness is created by putting things into the peoples minds and using a drug called Soma. "Till at last the child's mind is these suggestions, and the sum of these suggestions is the child's mind. And not the child's mind only. The adult's mind too-all his life long" (41). The morals of the society are put into the minds of the children as they sleep and it makes them think they are right. Soma is a drug that creates the feeling of  relaxation and allows the people to be content with their way of life. This creates the society to maintain conformity and the people within it to be happy. I would see this government as a utopia for the majority of the people. Because everything is right and things run smoothly, it seems as if the government has created a perfect world. The people are "happy" and content, everything is under control, and there is no conflict. However, I see that the flaws within the government will lead to a dystopian society as the book continues on.