Government In Brave New World

Equality is pushed upon each citizen. But with this equality, comes aforementioned characteristics: submission, hopelessness, detachedness, conformity, and isolation. Superiority is punished. As written in chapter I, "It is not good to be different from our brothers, but it is evil to be superior to them" (21). In this way, uniqueness is repressed when it should be

The characters Ayn Rand’s “Anthem” and Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World” live their lives being brainwashed. The two novels demonstrate corrupted societies that have taken away freedom, the ability to be unique, and the ability to express opinions due to the government. The people of both these societies have to act a certain way and cannot show any form of individuality. Both novels include the theme of viewing society as more important than the people. That is how the characters are raised, including the protagonists. The protagonists in both stories begin to express their uniqueness and stand out from others, which leads them to creating their own society.

In Brave New World, there are five castes: Alphas, Betas, Gammas, Deltas and Epsilons. In that order, the Alphas have the best lives and most freedom and then from that caste down they have fewer privileges. The Alphas are naturally the most beautiful and talented people in the society while the lower castes are conditioned to be less adept than the higher classes. Sadly, the lower castes are seen as less important and are unequal, “The lower the caste, the shorter the oxygen” (Huxley 73). There are far more Epsilons than Alphas because the Epsilons are less important and they die much sooner than the castes that are higher than them.

The government was created to serve the population and provide order to society. Running a country involves making laws that offer protection for a majority of the population, and although laws are created with the intent to please everyone, there will always be some people who do not agree with them. The people who are not pleased with society or the way the government is run are still entitled to their own happiness. Today, in our society, the government is not in charge of everyone's life; people are free to live however they please. In the novel, Brave New World, the futuristic society controls everyone's life so order will prevail. Pleasing the majority of the population is extreme in the novel because individuality is erased in order to ensure peace. I believe the government should continue to stay the way it is which

In Brave New World, the people have sacrificed art and emotions for stability. Each person is conditioned to fit the role that society has designated for them, with little to no free choice involved. The Director of their world, Mustapha Mond, offers the explanation that without the government controlling everything, chaos would occur because of unhappiness with place in the social caste and emotions. However, his argument is a moot point because the only reason why the world would be chaos is because everyone is conditioned to fit a certain part of society; without the conditioning, the world could be run by the people. Mustapha Mond firmly believes that without the social caste, all would be in ruin.

Government: this word is used to define the system that maintains the state and her people. This system is run by officials who, hopefully, have the nation 's best interest at heart; but these best interests for a country often find themselves conflicting in their particular perspectives. In the novel Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, the government has chosen to preserve the interest of state and this dystopia is the result of mankind choosing the wrong faction in the conflict of interest. To clarify, the principles, theories and arguments presented here in are democratic in orientation and not communistic, because the arguments aim toward freedom and rights. Those in control in Brave New World have misguided the nation’s populace into

In the novel Brave New World, Aldous Huxley creates a scenario where the government has control over the people and their ideas. Throughout the novel, we are shown the different methods and techniques the leaders utilize to control the lives of the people. After reading the story, we can point out similarities of government control from our world and the book. Huxley has a message for us about government power and what it could do to us.

Later, Huxley furthers his theme of the danger of all-powerful government, by using the Henry Ford as a motif. Instead of being a normal world which believes in Christ, the Brave New World make Henry Ford was a 20th century industrialist, who also found the Ford Motor Company. In the book Brave New World, the phrase “Oh my God” is replaced with phrases like “Oh my Ford” “Year of our Ford.” This presents that at the level of regular conversations and habits, religion is replaced by veneration for technology. By doing this the all-powerful government does not have to worry about the people studying a holy book, such as The Holy Bible. The people will never gain knowledge about how the world should be ran. The all-powerful government, will always have control over the Brave New World, because religion guides how society should interact with one another. If the people learn about The Bible, they will rebel because they will see that they are being enslaved by their all-powerful government.

Identity throughout the novel suggests that all members of the community are set to one social class, and that the members of the individual classes should experience a sense of pride for being in the predetermined class. “There is no religion, love, or philosophy, most books are banned; and thinking is discouraged” because everyone is looked upon as equal because no one has anything identifiable about themselves beside their caste (“Brave New World”). The caste system is divided up into five levels: Alphas, Betas, Gammas, Deltas, and Epsilons which are split by colors to give them the only source of identity. From beginning to end, it is stressed upon from the characters point of view that a specific social class has positives and that each are good for something to benefit the

Similarly, Huxley’s Brave New World depicts a government in total control doing all that it can to keep power over the people. From childhood, citizens in this society are conditioned to be perfect tools of the government. On page 22 of Brave New World, the Controller explains how babies are conditioned to hate and fear books and flowers, so as to destroy curiousity and promote work (Huxley 22). If people are formed in such a way where work and lesiure is all they know and love, deviance cannot occur. Also, ever before birth, citizens are forced into predetermined castes through chemical alterations. Early on in the novel, Henery tells Lenina, “And if you were an Epsilon, your conditioning would have made you no less thankful that you weren’t a Beta or an Alpha” (Huxley 74). Regardless of their caste, members of this world are okay with their situation because they are taught to love their position, no matter how degrading it can be. Much like The Party, Brave New World’s government takes special care to remove those who defy set rules and expectations. When explaining the islands to Hemholtz, the Controller says they are for “All of the people who, for one reason or another, have got too self-consciously individual to fit into community life” (Huxley 227). In order to preserve perfect obedient, society, the government eliminates the deviant by shipping them far away. The

As Edward Sard wrote, “Exile is strangely compelling to think about but terrible to experience.” This argument not only relates to the character Bernard Marx in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, but fits him to a T. In Huxley’s dystopian creation of the World State, leaves us in a place where man and technology have advanced so far it ultimately changed how societal and moral standards are viewed, by increasing the former and eliminating the latter. Humans no longer created through natural means but rather in Hatcheries and Conditioning centers where embryos are divided into a caste system. The highest of them all, Alphas are genetically enhanced to be superior, while lower castes, such as Delta and Epsilon are destined for numerous replications and stunted so that they can perform the tasks of a lower importance. In this world the young are conditioned at extremely young ages to accept where they belong and be content.

In the Brave New World, the people can not live their life to the fullest. One way they are limited is that they are predestined at birth. “We also predestined and condition. We decant our babies as socialized human beings, as Alphas or Epsilons, as future sewage workers or future…” (Huxley 13). No one is allowed to grow beyond what the government decides is their rank. There is no competition among people and no one is trying

impediment to their love, when their dealings with one another help them see their faults and

The United States government system is very interesting and complexly designed. The state and federal government is a mirror of each other when it comes to the generics of the executive branch, legislative branch, and judicial branch, however, internally the state government has major differences on how the branches are conducted. Throughout this paper we will discuss the greatest difference between state and federal, which is the state cannot change or remove laws passed by the federal government but they could change how they execute the federal laws to their liking as long as it is constitutional.

Government! You can't live with it! You can't live without it! It is the "common cold" that everyone dreads. The American Heritage College Dictionary, Third Edition defines government as, "The exercise of authority in a political unit in order to control and administer public policy." Webster's Desk Dictionary of the English Language defines government as, "The political direction and control exercised over a nation, state, community, etc." The common individual might define government as the root of all evil. The thing about government is that no one stops to think about how government came about.