"My Father! The laughter, which had shown signs of dying away, broke out again more loudly than ever" (Huxely 184).
The significance of the Father and Mother in society has been thrown away; this could be benefit to consumer culture, or society, because the people will not have anything holding them back anymore. Parents no longer in play means no more having to think of family and the people can progress faster because if there were to be controlling parents then the society's brightest minds would be held back the culture of family having a say in what you do. However, the defect of the loss to a familial structure in society would be that morals in the social consumerism is significantly altered. There is no need for marrying and no more need for monogamy, everyone is everyone else's and that is how society conducts itself in the Brave New World. Furthermore, this degrades life in the sense of believing in having a soul mate in which only the two belong to one another, the sweetness of the meaning in this is thrown away once the consumer culture of giving yourself only to one other person is changed into the consumer culture of romance being a very casual thing and to be done with anyone.
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