First Brave World Reading Entry

This place is a utopia. Everyone is happy,not by fear, but because there is no reason for them not to be happy. As an embryo they are fixed and taught to be happy. The only person who is not happy is Bernard Marx, who everyone thinks had some "alcohol put in his blood-surrogate." Bernard doesn't feel a part of this society, he feels like an outsider. Mainly because he's an Alpha with an Epsilon or Gamma body. This society has created conformity. Everyone is separated into Alphas, Betas, Gammas, and Epsilons. Gammas and Epsilons being the lowest of the caste and Alphas being at the top. Everyone is in acceptance of their caste because of "decanting" they are engineered exactly for that caste. There is no religion, "everyone belongs to everyone else" and "everyone works for everyone else."