"'She's a lucky girl,' Fanny had said to herself as she watched Lenina go. There was no envy in the comment; good natured Fanny was just stating a fact. (165)
Envy in the world state would develop unhappiness in individual lives, and a desire to become someone other that who conditioning planned them to be. In this world filled with controlled thinking, anyone who deviates from this conditioning in anyway is considered a risk to society. However, many of the characters in this story do just that. Fanny and Henry Foster are the only ones who did not, suggesting that others in the world state have similar questions. These questions might not even be conscious, like Lenina in here infatuation with men, or up to Bernard's certainties. While these risks will decrease the lower on the caste, because epsilons have less brain function and more conditioning, they still exist. The world leaders hide this fact from the citizens by creating "iceland", and spreading rumors of this terrible place, when really it and all of the islands similar to it are paradise. Hemholtz choosing what island he wanted to go to again shows the population sent to them is high enough to require many islands. This proves once again that conditioning does not work for everyone, because, despite what the world state believes every one is different, even 72 identical twins.
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