There is a big difference between humanity and individualism. The individual finds oneself in a world of struggle and overcomes that conflict as a whole. Humanity on the other hand is recognizing people's interest and preserving the fate of being a human. Two concepts clash in segments within the context of Brave New World. The importance of both is how much one can about how life as a person living both ideas should accept perfection among all. Even when perfection is ideal, it contradicts the beliefs of what it is to become a person who feels differently. Humans are definite in the structure of conditioning, hence the conflicts that arise in our inner self to act against perfection and outright societal demands. In the notion of outward conformity and inward questioning, literary techniques follow the deeper meaning of Brave New World in respect to the parts of understanding life through conscious determinants.
Consciousness lies between the fundamental human morals and individual thought process. Civilized people think of happiness as a luxury, such as Lenina and Bernard from Brave New World. Nothing sticks out more when soma is involved or a hypnopaedic person whose life goal is to achieve it. Because society asserts their wants for such emotions, not having someone in an example of Romeo and Juliet juxtaposes the conformist idea of having anyone they want in the suspected Brave New London. But the moral about happiness does't relate to content or rejoice, since the motif of a "blushing" or "flushed" face resembles nonchalant emotions than a reflective countenance. This internal conflict is affected by society as an outrageous practice, therefore it supports the book's deeper meaning of individual discovery. There's also a contrast in the internal feelings that Bernard suspects of transformation, but clings to ideas of a neutral state. The struggle within man himself defines the overarching solution of society fixing unruly statuses around conflicting peoples.
The world wasn't made to be perfect. Otherwise, people conceive perfection. In the novel, "universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning; truth and beauty can't." The dichotomy from the text suggests that everyone should believe in true happiness while letting go of the important prospects that may tarnish the meaning of perfection. Its an ultimatum that follows no righteous morals and so divides happiness apart from truth and beauty. Humanity could be lost without acknowledging the things that built over it. "The huge table-topped buildings were no more...a bed of geometrical mushrooms sprouting from the green of a park and garden" is seen to be a metaphor to how the infrastructure people builds on comes from a source of nature. There's history to the origin of human when nature is involved and with that being taken away in Brave New World, it symbolizes a thoughtful response of consciousness toward the environment and technological progress. Its also clear to think of the closeness of people to abstract things. The simile: "Like the vague torsos of fabulous athletes, huge fleshy clouds filled the blue air..." is determined by perfect images of people that carry on a popular support for humanity.
Individualism and humanity hinders a thin line, which in turn is blurred. Civilized individuals try to figure out the world with what they think or what they hear. That's where they choose to become content with how the world perceives. One things for sure, one can't live without both present because too many problems arise when one overcomes the other. There's a balance of working things out, whether shunned by one or can't find one's purpose in life, people look for other sources. Brave New World takes the readers to the context of simple inward questioning and outward conformity so that there's a general understanding of how the current world functions. An individual thrives to questioning all sorts of things, but the main focus to solving our problems is looking back at how it all started.
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