Brave New World Individualism Analysis

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Matthew Platz Mrs. Ermanni English III Period 4 May 2015 AMDG Individualism in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World “Individualism is a moral, political, or social outlook that stresses human independence and the importance of individual self-reliance and liberty”. (Rusch 123) Individualism opposes most external interference with a person’s choices, whether by society, the state, or any other group or institution; and individualism is also opposed to the view that tradition, religion or any other form of external moral standard should be used to limit an individual’s choice of actions. In the Brave new world society, there is a lack of individualism as a result of the conditioning process. The Director states early on in the novel “Bokanovsky’s…show more content…
He clearly doesn’t want to be at this event, but goes because he wishes he were like the rest of society. While everyone at the ritual enjoys the music around them, all Bernard thinks about it is that it’s a ”choir of instruments…repeated the brief and unescapably haunting melody of the first Solidarity Hymn” (Huxley 80). While most people were excited about something they heard during the service and were shouting out, Bernard thought about how “He heard nothing and, for him, nobody was coming. Nobody––in spite of the music, in spite of the mounting excitement” (Huxley 84). Bernard doesn’t feel the way most people feel and simply doesn’t fit in. People aren’t quick to accept Bernard: “Odd, odd, odd, was Lenina’s verdict on Bernard Marx.” (Huxley 87). Bernard realizes that conditioning has limited his ability to be an individual, “No, the real problem is: How is it that I can’t…I know quite well why I can’t-what would it be like if I could, if I were free – not enslaved by my conditioning.” (Huxley

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