Conform, or else!

"But one's got to make the effort," she said, sententiously, "one's got to play the game. After all, every one belongs to every one else." (pg 43)
In Brave New World,  conformity is stressed almost above anything else. Members of society fear being looked at as different, and will do most anything to be like everyone else. This reminds me of the Uglies series by Scott Westerfield. In this series, Uglies eagerly await the day they will undergo surgery to become a Pretty. However, what they don't know is that when they become pretty, their mind is also affected, causing them to think like everyone else. Tally, protagonist, finds friends who are part of a resistance to try to stop this surgery, or at the very least to not have to undergo it themselves. I believe that Bernard may become a part of a resistance, even if his reason for resisting is less because he wants to be an individual and more so because he feels like an outsider. Both novels are futuristic; Brave New World paints a picture of a world that has given in to conformity, and Uglies takes place on earth after an extremely destructive nuclear war.