Within A Brave New World, humanity had worked to achieve a society that was ultimately

perfect. However, along the way, humanity had lost sight of what made perfect worth striving for
and instead created an imperfect world where people were perfectly content with. The
methodology used to obtain this perfectly satisfying world is like a trap in design and once in it,
its hard to escape or even realise what mistakes are implemented in the worlds structure. One
of the most important thing missing is freedom. Another thing thats missing, as a consequence
of a lack of freedom, is humanness. Finally, and this is perhaps the easiest factor for a society
to willingly throw away despite the consequences of doing so, there is no struggle. These three
traits are the foundation for a proper society and where they arent is where dystopia will be
found.

Freedom is perhaps the most recognisable factor within a proper society. Nearly anyone within
a non-dystopian society can see the importance of it and realise that dystopia can only exist
without it. The world within A Brave New World is different from our own from birth. People,
when they are born, are assigned to a social group. Unlike social groups within the real world,
that are assigned not by any person but attach themselves to people based on how they live
their lives, social groups in A Brave New World are given at random and the actions of people
have no effect on how theyre granted. Even before birth, eggs are treated differently to match
the group theyre assigned. For example, the group of eggs that are destined to become people
of the Epsilon social group are treated in conditions worse than eggs destined to become part of
another social group. Hasnt it occurred to you that an Epsilon embryo must have an Epsilon
environment as well as an Epsilon heredity? (Huxley 14). After being granted a social group,
one is required to, for the rest of their life, follow the path picked out for them. People are
granted more freedoms depending on which group theyre in but everyone still has a set of
guidelines to follow thats specific to their own social group. This, and the censorship of
information- which is also present in A Brave New World- destroys individuality and stops
people from living lives that could cause new ideas to rise. Information is censored, ironically
enough, in order to keep new information circulating whereas older ideas are kept from the
public because theyre considered outdated and could no longer resonate with a modern
audience. Beautys attractive, and we dont want people to be attracted to old things. We want
them to like the new ones (Huxley 219). Ideas that age arent necessarily outdated, they could
be universally true. Even if they were outdated, history is important to keep public so the public
may learn from outdated ideas. Prohibiting information is the beginning of creating a dystopia.

Humanness isnt something that is easily defined. Although a criteria cant be written for it,
people tend to know it when they see it. Nearly everyone recognises the family structure as
human nature. People have parents and siblings that they hold close to their hearts and this
structure works to benefit people by giving a person a group thats love and take care of them-
as well as provide them with the responsibility to take care of someone else. The idea of a
family is completely destroyed in A Brave New World because it isnt as productive as taking
someone and making them another worker amongst millions that exist within a certain social
group. A part of being human is feeling the emotions one is born with. These include nicer
emotions like joy or excitement and exclude anger and sadness. This is likely how this dystopia
came about, people were stripped of their raw emotions. Not having sadness, anger, or hatred
will leave only good emotions in their place. With nothing but good emotions, its easy for one to
believe the world theyre in is perfect. By controlling peoples standard of perfection, perfections
was reached in the eyes of the public.

This is a complete failure to achieving a utopia. Perfection isnt something to can change the
standard for. Artificially stripping away more emotions doesnt make a society more perfect, it
just makes the people less able to tell. When someone is void of the blinding drugs the keep
them from feeling what emotions the dystopia is really eliciting, they can easily tell that
perfection is far from achieved. Dont you even understand what manhood and freedom are?
(Huxley 213).

Perfection is unobtainable by nature and trying to compromise by lowering the standards of

perfection is not how utopia is created. Part of what makes society great is the freedom granted
to the people living within it. Allowing people to live in reckless ways may result in unhappiness
but without the risk, the very essence of personhood is lost. Huxley wrote the prophecy of a
world the tried to bargain with perfection by throwing away the things that give perfection its
value, resulting in a dystopia.