Reading Journal: Brave New World (Chapters 1-6)

In the novel, equality is created with the castes that the government created.  People are randomly selected for each caste, and then they are conditioned to love the position they are in.  For example, babies are whispered pleasant things about their designated social class over and over again while they are sleeping (a process called, "hypnopaedia") so that they will love their class. On page 40, Beta babies are being whispered the words, "Alpha children wear grey. They work much harder than we do, because they're so frightfully clever.  I'm really awfully glad I'm a Beta, because I don't work so hard.  And then we are much better than the Gammas and Deltas.  Gammas are stupid.  They all wear green, and Delta children wear khaki.  Oh no, I don't want to play with Delta children.  And Epsilons are still worse.  They're too stupid to be able to read or write.  Besides, they wear black, which is such a beastly colour.  I'm so glad I'm a Beta."  Just like that, all people are conditioned to love their class, and their government as well.  Another thing that the author stresses in the first few chapters of the book to create equality is that people are not exactly treated like people.  They are more so identical products that are created in a factory.  Each person has their identity taken from them when they are being brought to life, because so many thousands of other people will be exactly like them.
The World State has reduced conflict and created happiness through, once again, the conditioning.  By conditioning everyone within a class to think the same way, no one will ever have any differing points of views.  Everyone thinks the same way about relationships.  Also, while they are being conditioned, because they are programmed to love their class and their government, they think that their lives are perfect, and they don't really see anything wrong with their given rights.  Everyone is happy, and no one has any arguments against the government.
From the point of view of someone reading about the story, the book clearly discusses a dystopia.  The readers can see that the government is abusing and limiting their citizens' rights (and a few select people in the book like Bernard and Helmholtz realize that they would rather be individuals).  However, because the citizens are content with their lifestyle, and the government has control over the people perfectly (for now?), this lifestyle could represent a utopia.  Everyone is happy, and no one tries to defy the government.  There is constant order in everyone's life.