A Brave New World
In this perfect society, where one is stripped away of what makes you an individual, you are programmed at birth to act and think a certain way, and be who the state tells you to be. In A Brave New World there is a complete detachment and absence of the family, and ultimately everything is handled by the State and its 10 World Controllers.
In this world, there are no longer individual countries, and the planet is united and turned into the one World State. This is governed by ten world controllers, who are headquartered in 10 key cities. In this world, the State controls just about everything, even the sports and games that the citizens are allowed to play. The World State’s motto, “Community. Identity. Stability.”, emphasizes …show more content…
All that is contributed and goes along with the word family is completely eradicated. “For you must remember that in those days of gross viviparous reproduction, children were always brought up by their parents and not in State Conditioning Centres” (17) Children, rather than being brought up by their parents, are instead, are all brought up together in these conditioning centres. Here they are conditioned into what the State wants them to be taught, and are practically brainwashed as soon as they are brought into their world. All concepts of “mother” and “father” are considered dirty and primitive.
“Our Freud had been the first to reveal the appalling dangers of family life. The world was full of fathers - was therefore full of misery; full of mothers - therefore of every kind of perversion from sadism to chastity; full of brothers, sisters, uncles, aunts - full of madness and suicide.” (28)
There is no good association with the terms family, mother, father, etc, anymore, Kids are brought up to see these things as disgusting and embarrassing, and can not even begin to fathom what these terms really mean, and how the generations before them lived in a world where they …show more content…
With this, they are able to strip away all the emotions and actions that can, and have, resulted when having a family. In a way, they stripped away ‘love’ and everything else associated with a family. They built a world where they do not have to worry about the consequences and the irratical, and sometimes irrational, emotions and actions that one can have while being in a family, and in an environment where families are celebrated and part of the norm. Instead, they live upto their motto, “Community. Identity. Stability.”, and strive to do anything that will advance and promote those three words. They are able to build a controlled environment where they have prevented from anything happening that they do not want to happen . and the absence of family, where love is first introduced into a person, is they key into continuing and advancing this perfect world of theirs, according to their mindset of, “Community. Identity.
In this perfect society, where one is stripped away of what makes you an individual, you are programmed at birth to act and think a certain way, and be who the state tells you to be. In A Brave New World there is a complete detachment and absence of the family, and ultimately everything is handled by the State and its 10 World Controllers.
In this world, there are no longer individual countries, and the planet is united and turned into the one World State. This is governed by ten world controllers, who are headquartered in 10 key cities. In this world, the State controls just about everything, even the sports and games that the citizens are allowed to play. The World State’s motto, “Community. Identity. Stability.”, emphasizes …show more content…
All that is contributed and goes along with the word family is completely eradicated. “For you must remember that in those days of gross viviparous reproduction, children were always brought up by their parents and not in State Conditioning Centres” (17) Children, rather than being brought up by their parents, are instead, are all brought up together in these conditioning centres. Here they are conditioned into what the State wants them to be taught, and are practically brainwashed as soon as they are brought into their world. All concepts of “mother” and “father” are considered dirty and primitive.
“Our Freud had been the first to reveal the appalling dangers of family life. The world was full of fathers - was therefore full of misery; full of mothers - therefore of every kind of perversion from sadism to chastity; full of brothers, sisters, uncles, aunts - full of madness and suicide.” (28)
There is no good association with the terms family, mother, father, etc, anymore, Kids are brought up to see these things as disgusting and embarrassing, and can not even begin to fathom what these terms really mean, and how the generations before them lived in a world where they …show more content…
With this, they are able to strip away all the emotions and actions that can, and have, resulted when having a family. In a way, they stripped away ‘love’ and everything else associated with a family. They built a world where they do not have to worry about the consequences and the irratical, and sometimes irrational, emotions and actions that one can have while being in a family, and in an environment where families are celebrated and part of the norm. Instead, they live upto their motto, “Community. Identity. Stability.”, and strive to do anything that will advance and promote those three words. They are able to build a controlled environment where they have prevented from anything happening that they do not want to happen . and the absence of family, where love is first introduced into a person, is they key into continuing and advancing this perfect world of theirs, according to their mindset of, “Community. Identity.