Brave New World
... The society expends the importance of the individual for the general happiness and stability of a world state. Such a paradise exists only within the pages of Aldous Huxleys futuristic novel, Brave New World. ... The concept of Brave New World is based primarily around a futuristic caste system, where the inhabitants are genetically divided into five categories; the Alphas, Betas, Gammas, Deltas, and Epsilons. ... The only visible difference between Bernard and the others however, is his physical build and height, but even this petty difference proves to be a significant loss in the world state and is the reason for Bernards loneliness and desolation. ... Linda is a Beta, and was at point, twenty years earlier, part of the new world society. ... Linda and John live for twenty years in the filth of the reservation as she grows older, ill, and overweight without the proper medical care that she is used to from the world state. One thing she does not leave behind with her however, is her conditioning from the new world and the promiscuous behavior that goes along with the teachings. Behaving according to the ordinary world state principles, she sleeps with many of the Indians on the reservation and never understands why the women scorn her or why a majority of the people make John an outsider because of it. ... Linda overdoses herself on the soma pills in order to escape the facts of life in the new world because even in this society she is scorned for her natural conception of John with the Tomakin, the director. Linda remains different even after going back to her original society, because of her intimate relation with Tomakin, and her part in a natural birth in a society which fears the words “mother” or “father” as much as today’s world fears terrorists. ... As a result of being conceived naturally, between Linda and Tomakin, he is still cast separate from society amidst the savages as member of the new world, because he as well as his mother are viewed in a drastically different light than that of the people in their surrounding. ... John’s natural conception also alienates him from the society of the new world, in which being naturally conceived is considered one of the highest degrees of sin.