Themes in Huxley's "Brave New World"

The theme of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World is community, identity, and stability. Each of these three themes represents what a Brave New World society needs to have in order to survive. According to the new world controllers, community is a result of identity and stability, identity is a part of genetic engineering, and stability is what everyone desires to achieve. These themes are represented in the book by the symbolic meaning of the phrase "Children are from bottles" and the hypnotic phrase "Everybody belongs to everybody else" (43). In this society, freedom and individualism is replaced by scientific control and mindless happiness at an unknown cost.
Community refers to the thought of one whole unit. Everyone is connected, by their actions toward each other in every day life, sexual desires, and what they do to remove the feeling of horrible emotions. This false connectedness and its effects can be seen in Bernard, a person who hates what society has become. Bernard is disgus...