Journal #1 Brave New World

In Brave New World one of the motifs is the phrase "Everyone belongs to everyone else" which in the case basicly means anyone can have a "relationship" with anyone. There is no marrage and its socially acceptable to switch partners. People are told not to have long relationships with people, and are punished if they do.  This is the complete opposite of our own socital views and the fact that people are happy with the way they live is confusing.  There are also motifs embeded into all children about the social order of things through means of sleep teaching (Playing a recording while they sleep).  Phrases like "I'm so glad i'm an [Alpha/Beta/etc]" teach the children to love their class and be happy that they aren't in another one. They are taught that Alphas are at the top while the elipses are the lowest of the low. This keeps the social order of things running smoothly because there's no chance of a uprising from the lower classes if they love where they are.

The first part of the book takes place in the "Central London Hatchery And Conditioning Centre" (Chapter 1), which from the start is an odd concept.  The very first chapter goes into detail on how humans are created in test tubes, and how they are created to be in a specific group (Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Etc). They do this to create people perfect for a certian type of job. Huxley starts out the novel in the hatchery in order to set the society apart from our own right away and to show how peoples fates are decided for them. The larger setting for Brave New World is somewhere in Europe, which is controlled by 1 of ten world leaders.  Every community is structured in the same way creating this overall equality between nations and societies.

"'Try to realize what it was like to have a viviparous mother.' That smutty word again. But none of them dreamed, this time, of smiling." (Chapter 3) Words like mother, father, and family are considered almost to be taboo because People don't grow up in families anymore and were never taugh by a mother or father. Society doesn't have any family morals or restrictions on them, but instead have the teachings of the govenment to direct their life.  Brave New World also uses a lot of scientific terms, mostly when describing the hatchery.  This creates life in general to have a scientific aspect to it rather than a natural.  Huxley does this because with the idea of nature comes the idea of freedom, and its impossible to control a society if people are free.