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Quote #7
Fanny worked in the Bottling Room, and her surname was also Crowne. But as the two thousand million inhabitants of the plant had only ten thousand names between them, the coincidence was not particularly surprising. (3.58)
The upper castes may not consist of dozens of identical copies, but individuals still lack any sort of independent identity.
Quote #8
"Talking about her as though she were a bit of meat." Bernard ground his teeth. "Have her here, have her there." Like mutton. Degrading her to so much mutton. She said she'd think it over, she said she'd give me an answer this week. Oh, Ford, Ford, Ford." He would have liked to go up to them and hit them in the face—hard, again and again. (3.139)
Bernard's disgust has much to do with identity; he feels that Lenina is being defined solely by her body—as mere "meat."
Quote #9
But if she were to say yes, what rapture! Well, now she had said it and he was still wretched—wretched that she should have thought it such a perfect afternoon for Obstacle Golf, that she should have trotted away to join Henry Foster, that she should have found him funny for not wanting to talk of their most private affairs in public. Wretched, in a word, because she had behaved as any healthy and virtuous English girl ought to behave and not in some other, abnormal, extraordinary way. (4.2.2)
Bernard builds up an unrealistic expectation of Lenina. He makes her out to be extraordinary because he feels he himself is extraordinary—he creates a false identity that she proves unable to fulfill.