Normative social influence, the pressure to conform to be accepted by others, is the reason characters behave in certain ways. At the end of A Clockwork Orange, Alex is reconditioned to be like himself, once again committing crimes. However, when he sees his old friend Pete with a wife and plans for a family, his goals change. Because of this meeting, Alex considers “finding a devotchka…who can be the mother of [his future] child” (Burgess 212). After seeing how his peers have matured since his release from prison, Alex is encouraged to settle down and be more like an adult himself. Likewise, Winston is forced to join the fray of the Two Minutes Hate. He admits that “to conceal one's feelings…to do what everyone else did, was…instinctive” (Orwell 18). Even though Winston is also warding off suspicion, he knows he is still incapable of resisting, proving that conformity is innate. Furthermore, Brave New World depicts an attempt to create a population perfectly uniform in both appearance and acuity. From an early age, children are exposed through hypnopaedia to phrases such as "'Alpha children wear grey...[Gammas] dress green, and Delta children wear khaki'" (Huxley 27). This conditioning instills in every child that he belongs to a certain caste and his group is the best to be a part of. Every human being is predestined to be part of a specific class, unable to move between ranks and is forced to do so.