A Conditioned World

In Brave New World, written by Aldous Huxley, the people live by a caste system. This caste system is separated into to five groups, Epsilons being the lowest, Deltas, Gammas, Betas, and Alphas being the highest. But there is an unorthodox interference with how people are usually born. Babies are born through scientific reproduction, allowing their brains to be conditioned into a specific social class. The lower class go through a horrendous process; before they are fully formed, they are manipulated so they have deformities. Then after they are born they are traumatized in an attempt to keep them from enjoying certain things such as flowers and books to assure that they will be solely focused on their task at hand.

It is unsettling to think that people are not allowed to be born freely, and to be allowed to enjoy little things in life. I previously wrote a blog before I got further into the book, and I believed that this book was about a Utopian society much like The Giver. But as I have further read this book I have come to the realization that this book is the total opposite of a Utopian society, and is in fact a Dystopian society. For me, these two can often get mixed up in the sense that they are both worlds that are conditioned a specific way to serve a purpose. But one, being the Dystopian society, has a much more negative outcome. All in all, this is a great book, despite all of the atrocities that occur.