Throughout Huxley’s novel, A Brave New World, the dystopian government’s control of the World State and the people within it is a recurring theme. The government has full control over people’s thoughts, reproduction, and love. In essence, the only part of humans they do not have control of is their movements. At the very beginning of the book, the reader learns that in the World State Hatching and Conditioning Centre, Delta babies were being taught to dislike flowers and books. “He waved his hand again, and the Head Nurse pressed a second lever. The screaming of the babies suddenly changed its tone. There was something desperate, almost insane, about the sharp spasmodic yelps to which they now gave utterance. Their little bodies twitched …show more content…
They were at the top of the social pyramid. “‘Silence, silence,’ whispered a loud speaker as they stepped out at the fourteenth floor, and ‘Silence, silence,’ the trumpet mouths indefatigably repeated at intervals down every corridor. The students and even the Director himself rose automatically to the tips of their toes. They were Alphas, of course, but even Alphas have been well conditioned. ‘Silence, silence.’ All the air of the fourteenth floor was sibilant with the categorical imperative.” (2.67). The other castes, Deltas, Gammas, and Betas, were considered “lower society”. The government ensured that no one would go outside of their individual intelligence by controlling all fertilizations. "For of course," said Mr. Foster, "in the vast majority of cases, fertility is merely a nuisance. One fertile ovary in twelve hundred—that would really be quite sufficient for our purposes. But we want to have a good choice...” (1.65). The government wanted "Community, Identity, Stability." Grand words. "If we could bokanovskify indefinitely the whole problem would be solved." (1.18-21). They believed they would achieve those three key elements to a powerful World State by regulating