What are the three societal aims encoded in the motto of the World State?

• A. Freedom, Equality, Fraternity
• B. Knowledge, Power, Prosperity
• C. Community, Identity and Stability
• D. Health, Wealth, and Harmony

Answer: (C)

The key idea being tested is how the World State justifies its social order through a simple, guiding motto. The three aims are Community, Identity and Stability.

Community means the whole society’s welfare comes before any individual’s desires, encouraging cooperation and suppressing actions that would disrupt collective harmony. Identity refers to each person having a fixed role and a shared sense of belonging to the state, which minimizes personal loyalties that could threaten uniformity. Stability is the overarching goal, maintained through conditioning, controlled reproduction, and efforts to prevent dissent or upheaval so the social system remains solid over time.

These terms are specific to the World State’s ideology. The first option reflects a different historical slogan about liberty and equality, while the other choices don’t capture the particular trio the novel uses. So the motto the worldState embodies is Community, Identity and Stability.