#CLASSES IN BRAVE NEW WORLD SERIES#

Only high-class people can have the upper level management jobs, can engage in sexual activities as much and as often as they like, and are permitted to travel to exotic places. The same type of class discrimination occurs in Brave New World. In descending order they are named for the first five letters of the Greek alphabet: Alphas. Those associated with lower classes cannot be introduced to these rituals due to their low status in society. Five genetic castes or classes inhabit this futurist dystopia.

The Brahmin class, for example, mentally speaks pariseshanam (a prayer-like saying) before and after every meal. The rituals and ways of life also differ in the Indian caste system. The Delta and Epsilon classes contain short, horrific looking people. In the Gamma class, everyone is pretty average looking. In the highest-level classes, Alpha and Beta, each person is produced to be tall and attractive. Gamma, Delta, and Epsilon undergo the Bokanovsky Process, which involves shocking an egg so that it divides to form up to ninety-six identical embryos, which. Embryos destined for the higher classes get chemicals to perfect them both physically and mentally, whereas those of the lower classes are altered to be. Aldous Huxley took this idea and applied it to each caste in his book. People of each caste conceive with only those of their same status, making the similar physicality probable. The physical expectations are due to the consistencies in appearance in the existing castes. The higher-class people are expected to be taller, with fairer skin, and the lower class short, dark-skinned, and have wide noses (Béteille 49-50). In the Indian caste system, the different castes are classified by the physical appearance of the person. The individual freedoms may be limited in the modern world, Huxley admits, but they must be exercised constantly or be lost.

#CLASSES IN BRAVE NEW WORLD SERIES#

In Brave New World, each caste is broken into the “pluses” and “minuses” of the peoples, identified by the level of job one holds, such as a preacher or a manager. In Brave New World Revisited, a series of essays on topics suggested by the novel, Huxley emphasizes the necessity of resisting the power of tyranny by keeping ones mind active and free. Both caste systems are broken down into sub-groups. Aldous Huxley created Brave New World to have different castes: the Alphas, Betas, Gammas, Epsilons, and Deltas. There are five social classes, the classes in order from highest to lowest are Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, Epsilon. The citizens are modified before birth to fit into respective social classes.

Much like in the Indian caste system, where the classes are Brahmin, Kshatriya, Vaishya, Shudra, the highest to lowest ranks, equivalent to those in Brave New World. Zacker DecemGenetic Engineering In Brave New World by Aldous Huxley humans are genetically modified to fit into society. This system, known as the caste system, is popular in the Hindu culture and breaks society down into different peoples, each have a different social standard. Aldous Huxley, author of Brave New World, based the social system off of the one used in India.

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