Manipulation In Brave New World

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.

During the 1930s, the times of World War II and the Great Depression, Aldous Huxley wrote Brave New World. There were several issues going on in Huxley’s time that are still present in today's world . Huxley features some of these problems in his book, Brave New World. These problems include drug or medicine usage, women and gender inequality, and traditional marriage/homosexuality. Since this book was written during the times of the Great Depression and World War II, these factors also contributed to some of these issues. Since World War II and the Great Depression are over, these do not affect the problems today. Although some of these problems are still a problem in today's world and society, they are not as much of a problem as they were during Huxley's time.

For instance, a marketing study performed by J.Morgan, has found that colour can increase brand recognition by up to 80%. (Morgan, 2010) Advertisements use colour to influence their target audience’s attention towards their product and, decision-making. Colour plays a role in conveying information to the general public.

Aldous Huxley argues that certain structures in our modern society work like drugs, just like working in this dystopian society. He often argues that the use of advertising specifically targeted toward a group of people for the way that it hypnotizes individuals into buying a specific product.

Huxley’s Brave New World could be considered almost prophetic by many people today. It is alarmingly obvious how modern society is eerily similar to Huxley’s novel with the constant demand for instant gratification encouraging laziness, greed, and entitlement. Neil Postman, a contemporary social critic, seems to have noticed this similarity, as he has made bold, valid statements regarding the text and its relevance to our world today. This response is strongly in support of those statements and will prove both their accuracy in clarifying Huxley’s intentions and how Postman’s assertions compare to society today.

The power of manipulation is a very powerful tool and can easily be misused to benefit

Huxley’s Brave New World centers around a society far from modern day. In this warped

In many scenario, manipulation often are consider harmful and deceiving to the human mind. It has been demonstration as a bad moral in human nature. An abutments individual suffer financial, personality influence and in result of an unhealthy health concern. Many have argue the intent of manipulation of destroying personalities by persuasive thought believing

In Huxley’s well renowned novel, Brave New World, in an attempt to alter society, the government uses various techniques of psychological manipulation to control the way citizens think, behave, form their personalities, and live their lives. A huge theme in this novel is control and power. The leaders of the World State use various forms of manipulation to create an ideal utopia. Psychological manipulation is a type of social behavior that pursues to alter the actions of an individual through violent or devious undertakings. Manipulative behavior is not something that is easily identifiable because these individuals are usually good liars, are deviating, and only target vulnerable people. During every crisis such as World War I, the Great

Exploit in Huxley’s Dystopia: Eugenics and Psychological Conditioning A utopian society is already an intimidating idea to most people; how can one ensure that the simple idea of a utopia will send people running in the opposite direction? Add eugenics and psychological condition to the conversation. In Aldous Huxley’s dystopian novel, Brave New World, that is exactly what he does.

the book. These literary elements help to reveal that Huxley views the social and political aspects

Conditioning and Entertainment are significant advantages for the Controllers of the World State, because it is an easy way to satisfy their citizen. I think our entertainment in our society isn’t far away from the “feelis” or the other entertaining stuff they had in Brave New World, but I don’t think it was hard to predict for Huxley, because this way of satisfying people wasn’t really new and has already been used in our history:

By attempting to eradicate the bad, the individual's feelings and emotions are also eradicated. Huxley's work is very timely in the post-post-modern existence where hyper-reality is more real than reality. For example, we enjoy coverage of conflicts like the Gulf War as a series of TV images that resemble fireworks in the night sky. This is what the "reality" of war remains to us, as opposed to the brutality is truly is in the field of battle. Thus, like the state of Brave New World, the negative effects of war are softened for us, made into witty sound-bites and bright, shiny TV images. Should we become depressed over the reality of war, we can always pop a Prozac and feel better immediately. Thus, through the economic and technological attempt

Lastly manipulative advertising in which uses deceivable promises or results about consumers emotions and experiences to encourage consumer's decision-making process. There exist advertisements in which invoke methods aiming for consumer's emotions and trust to buy their products. I intend to discuss how consumers need to be more informed about advertising messages to prevent any influences in our free choice and how advertising can manipulate consumer autonomy. Summary

Adlous Huxley’s Brave New World thrives upon some ideas that were very popular and new during the early twentieth century. Huxley creates one of the greatest dystopian novels of all time that consisted of a world that was controlled completely by one central power that exclaimed it was for “equality”. One big idea that we notice is psychoanalysis and this is propagated by Doctor Sigmund Freud. I believe that Huxley uses his dystopian society with various scientific and psychological technique sets in order control people to provide a warning to society for the world that they could become.