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Does eliminating from life all suffering and inconvenience, especially through biotechnology, run the risk of eliminating what is truly human?.

“The ultimate effect of shielding men from folly is to fill the world with fools.” – Herbert Spencer.

Is human life in Brave New World truly human life, or only its imitation?.

Is John claiming the right to be unhappy, or is he claiming the right to be happy in a truly human way, which means one must risk genuine unhappiness?.

When John then claims that these virtues are necessary for genuine humanity, Mond responds that John is asserting his right to be unhappy.

Mond concedes that Brave New World has no heroism or nobility, but claims these are mediocre commodities.

John argues that the “humanity” of those in Brave New World is degraded, with no possibility for heroism or nobility.

Mond quotes and then rejects both Newman and Maine de Biran.Bernard and Lenina bring John back to London, where, eventually, he has a confrontation with the World Controller, Mustapha Mond.‘Father’ and ‘Mother’ are dirty words.There is no such thing as love between the sexes. Sex is just for recreation in Brave New World.The Director, however, had abandoned the woman there when she became separated from him on an hike through the Reservation. When he was young, the Director had taken a young woman to New Mexico, just as Bernard does.John is the illegitimate son of the Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning.While at the reservation, Bernard and Lenina discover John the Savage.

People from Brave New World go to the Savage Reservation to see the wild humans in their natural habitat. Americans go to Africa to see wild animals in their natural habitat.The people from Brave New World to go the Savage Reservation for much the same reason as people from contemporary America go on safari to Africa.Bernard Marx takes Lenina (the names are not accidental) on a vacation to the Savage Reservation in New Mexico.Also, they are bred and conditioned to be satisfied by the gratification of their most animalistic impulses.All the people in Brave New World are bred and conditioned to be satisfied by fulfilling the the social roles they been bred and conditioned for.Gammas, Deltas, and Epsilons are mass produced through a kind of cloning known as bokanovkification.Alphas and Betas are manufactured individually.Higher castes are bred and conditioned to do the “thinking” work of Brave New World.Lower castes are really sub-human and are bred and conditioned to do menial labor. World State’s motto – Community, Identity, Stability.Each caste is bred and conditioned to fulfill specific social roles.Alpha pluses at the top Epsilon minuses at the bottom.