Innovation In Brave New World

Within the story of a Brave New World, Aldous Huxley gives perfect description of new forms of conditioning; conditioning and indoctrination on a scale of political and social standardization. In the World Government, the goal of indoctrination is for collective agreement; so that every person may believe exactly as the next person does as well not simply so that there is no argumentation, but also so if there were to be an individual who does not agree, or who had somehow found the truth behind the “lessons” of childhood conditioning, then their claims against the World State would find literally no support, as seen when the main character Bernard Marx tries to convince his “girlfriend” of the sorts, to appreciate nature (a hated activity

Adolf Hitler once said, “The best way to take control over a people and control them utterly is to take a little of their freedom at a time…until past the point at which these changes cannot be reversed.” The motif of governmental control manipulates the individuals in Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. Society within Brave New World is conditioned to follow specific guidelines and to possess the same beliefs. The bureaucracy dominates the population of the New World socially, mentally, and physically. The motif of executive authority and domination assists in establishing characters, mood and atmosphere, and the additional theme of using technology to manipulate characters.

Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World incorporates the political ploy of brainwashing and uses it to promote the common belief. While the term “brainwashing” was coined during the Cold War era, it still carries heavy implications and often suggests harsh techniques. Subsequently, brainwashing can be seen as ridding a person of their own ideology and replacing it with a more suitable collection of thoughts. Through techniques of mass education, thought control, and depravation of critical judgment, the World Controllers in the Brave New World are brainwashing their citizens and creating a perpetual state of dependency and confusion, serving as a warning for modern civilizations.

Throughout Aldous Huxley’s dystopian novel, Brave New World, the reader is thrust to the forefront of a society merely based on consumerism, class loyalty, and conventional principles. The motif of brainwashing is used in an effort to abolish individualism throughout Huxley’s novel. He does so by eloquently mirroring the beliefs of the totalitarian governments of the past by establishing a government that brainwashes its own citizens to conform to their beliefs. The “World State” uses hypnopedia as a tool to accomplish this goal of conformity. They teach young children, their principles to reduce the probability of an uprising against the tyrannical power.

Reading Brave New World written by Aldous Huxley, readers are led to a dystopia in which the World State takes control over everything including reproduction, consumption and the most important of all‐conditioning. Although Lenina and Linda are not the main characters that bring the story to its climax, they play significant roles in the story as they represent the people being affected by the World State conditioning.

In Brave New, Huxley shows us how the influence of a human conditioning in a government controlled society, can result in the dehumanization of humans by the loss of free will, with today’s technological and scientific advancements, it is no surprise more scientists and philosophers are starting to debate human consciousness and whether or not free will still exists. Early in the novel, Huxley shows us that in order for a society to remain completely conformed, we have to change the primal instinct of an individual, and ultimately their free will through conditioning in order to keep the society stable. Conditioning forces people to obey the principles of the government through subliminal messages. With the loss of free

The campaign for President in 1960s was one of the closest races between two candidates. In the end, John F. Kennedy, the Democratic nominee, had only been elected by a one-tenth of a percent margin against his Republican party opponent, Richard M. Nixon. John F. Kennedy had made specific decisions as the Democratic candidate that helped him leap to victory. Specifically, JFK’s performance during the first televised debate, decision to focus on key large states, Houston tape, and other decisions had overall led to him winning the election of 1960. On the other end, Nixon had made some inaccuracies and mistakes that cost him getting elected. Specifically, Nixon’s hospitalization, promise to visit all 50 states, performance and appearance on the first nationally viewed television and other errors are what led to JFK’s win. Because of Nixon’s and Kennedy’s decisions during the campaign of 1960, it would, after all, lead to JFK’s election.

Appealing towards social familiarity can function as one’s anchor for their literary audience to hold on and connect with; however in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, his presentation of society in future serves to challenge our very expectations on the extent of depths of immorality mankind can subject itself to. The horrific justifications of manipulative practices such as infant conditioning and sleep-learning indicates both Huxley’s skepticism towards motives behind radical social experiments and the underlying danger of his audience being indifferent towards the weaponization of such experiments. (AUDIENCE) Furthermore, Huxley’s development of the World State caste system and its effects of alienation towards characters such as Helmholtz and Bernard in BNW act as indirect criticism towards the recent emergence of superpowers with social frameworks determined to undermine human individualism.(CONTEXT) Both motifs also contribute to a sense of all-around absurdity in BNW’s society and its focus around the complete rejection of past conservatism, allowing Huxley’s to express his personal opposition towards the anti-traditionalist movements dominating contemporary thought at the time. (AUTHOR) The manifestation of these

On September 26, 1960, John Fitzgerald Kennedy met Richard Milhous Nixon in the first nationally televised presidential debate in American history. The candidates clashed on a variety of domestic issues, including education, infrastructure, health care, and economic policies. The audience was unprecedented in size. Approximately seventy million Americans watched the debate. By the end, Kennedy was a star. Democrats, Republicans, and Independents alike lauded his poise, confidence, and charisma. On the other hand, viewers criticized Nixon’s haggard expression and sweaty countenance. As it turns out, television had the greatest influence on these perceptions. Those who watched the debate overwhelmingly asserted Kennedy’s clear victory, while

The political debates amongst Nixon and Kennedy assume a gigantic part in TV history, and the historical backdrop of America. It formed the way that we run our political races today. The politics debate being aired on television enabled individuals to see the character and activities of both candidates. During these televised debates, various viewers saw Kennedy's self assurance and how well put together he was. But then on the other hand, Nixon had a harder time and gave off a frightful vibe to the viewers who were watching the debated. Individuals who watched it on TV felt Kennedy won the debate, while the individuals who tuned in to the radio felt Nixon won. This point is important, essential, and identified with television

Aldous Huxley’s novel, Brave New World is about a futuristic society where humans are made from bottles that go through a brainwashing after their growth in

In Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, applying a psychoanalytic lens to the children’s behavior predicts the downfall of humanity. The most prominent example is in the conditioning of the caste systems. The different castes are conditioned to withstand certain environments to make them ideal for their workplace. Setting up specific lives for the children does not allow individuality between them. “Nothing like a little oxygen shortage or keeping an embryo below par,” (Huxley 14). This quote is important to the psychological theory as a theme through the novel because it portrays the diluting of an embryo to make it withstand their specific lives in the future. The child created will never be allowed the make decisions because the society’s

Aldous Huxley created a literary masterpiece which shows a possible, dismal future produced by the misuse of science and technology. In his book, Brave New World, the World Controllers use various scientific methods to dehumanize the population in order to control them. The advanced use of biotechnology has allowed the government to completely eliminate family and have the population physically engineered to fit specific specifications according to the needs of society. They also use different methods of brainwashing in order to ensure the population properly conforms to their outline of civilization. Through the use of primitive conditioning techniques combined with current ones, everything the people think, like, and dislike is

Aldous Huxley, the writer of Brave New World, gives an amazing look at where the world could end up with the lack of a moral compass and shows what happens when decisions are made by a select few. The novel shows how easily the government can take control and turn the common public into whatever robots they want them to be. It can turn civilized countries into places like North Korea, where the people have been lied to and have no insight to the rest of the world. The book gives the account of the protagonists’, Bernard Marx, journey to find the truth. It’s scary how insightful and how this could quickly become a reality in today’s society.

Further methods of keeping readers attached to the paper included the introduction of the two hotlines that served to the queries of readers.