"'What a hideous colour khaki is,' remarked Lenina, voicing the hypnopaedic prejudices of her caste."
(pg. 62)
This quote reveals a key component of the world's social system Huxley developes in this book. Frankly, the characters in this book are prejudice. It seems they are always concerned with their social superiority by making it known how happy they are to belong to their social class and not to another. The narrator reveals that these prejudices were created through the hypnopaedic process. This simply is voicing a statement so that people hear it as they sleep for periods of time, described in the book as being many years, until that statement becomes a fundamental belief and fact to those who have heard it. However, I am confused with why Huxley would include these prejudices in his book. They don't seem to be important to the plot really in any significant way so far. Also, I don't understand why programming these people to be prejudice would be helpful or important in any way to the people in the story other than just attempting to make themselves feel superior. Was it just a random thing Huxley added to the traits of his characters he created, or will it come to play a key role later in the story?
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