Ironically, in the real world family is essential and often acts as a primary support system, in the World State that job is given to Soma, a recreational drug, that alleviates any pain the user is experiencing. For this reason we see that the citizens of the New World do not have parents, lovers or children. The first value that Mond believes must be sacrificed are personal relationships that produce emotions or feelings of passion. In Huxley’s dystopia, the ruling body, under Mustapha Mond, pursues a society driven by absolute consumerism by ultimately sacrificing certain human values, that in today’s society, might be seen as essential. While in modern society we are forced to sacrifice certain aspects of our lives to conform to certain norms, in Brave New World, the sacrifices that are made are far more extreme. Through the idea that this future New World shares the similarities with our current society, Huxley is ultimately warning us of the harmful effects that expansion and development of a capitalist ideology can impose on society.

While these differences, such as how babies are genetically engineered through artificial wombs, or how infants in different castes are classically conditioned in different ways, may seem quite obvious to the reader, what is not as evident are the ways in which the New World society mirrors ours. In Aldous Huxley’s novel, Brave New World, the context of the story is set in a dystopian-like future labeled the “World State.” Naturally, this fictional society differs in many ways from our own, and Huxley distinctly describes the points where our world and the World State diverge.

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