Brave New World Response 1

Equality and conformity are created by the World State making everybody equal in their castes without choice; it is done at birth. The author writes, "'The lower the caste,' said Mr. Foster, "the shorter the oxygen [given to the fetus] (28)." This shows how it is not up to the person what their life, it is up to the World State. By making a uniform set of "unwritten" rules, everyone is the same. Since people are deadlocked into the present, as "History is bunk" Huxley writes (47), they go with what is known then, leading to no individualism. The above reasons show the society was a dystopia.