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How does the “Brave New World” try to achieve its motto of “community, identity & stability”?In what ways has this resulted in society being distanced from “the natural order”?

“Stability,’ insisted the Controller, ‘stability. The primal and the ultimate need. Stability. Hence all this.’
All’s well with the world.” (BNW, page 34)

Brave New World tries to achieve its motto of “community, identity and stability” by portraying a futuristic society (which could be seen as a disguised oppression) with highly contrasting views on morality to that of today’s perspective of 'the natural order' of society. These contrasting views have been created through the process of genetic and engineered conditioning directed at subjugated levels of social structure, the comparison to the Reservation as well as the acknowledged and accepted use of drugs (Soma) to induce a state of 'happiness'.
A major instrument of social stability used by the Brave New World is Bokanovsky’s Process- a series of arrests of development to “stabilise the population” (page 5). “Predestined” embryos are concentrated to become purposeful members of society, “as futur...

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