Relationships In Brave New World

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In the novel “Brave New World” the concept of families and long-term relationships do not exist in the futuristic society. In the World State the people are conditioned to not lust for emotional attachments or commitments to other human beings. The idea of family and monogamy is obsolete to the characters of the novel because the maintenance of their society depends on relationships being nonexistent. The World State functions on stability because, of technological distractions and gives its citizens drugs to take away any negative feelings. Consequently, the addition of families to the new world would cause the demise of the World State. Mustapha Mond the controller of the World State stated that “they’re plagued with no mothers or fathers;
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