Individuality is lost and brainwashing has become unescapable. The reoccurrence of the hypnopædic phrase, “every one belongs to every one else” has been drilled into the minds of each young individual, a rough sixty-two thousand times (40). Familial attachment and love are discouraged and individuals have become interchangeable parts of society. This created culture can be seen in Aldous Huxley’s novel Brave New World, where individuals are shaped for the purpose of contributing to society in a positive and constructive way, allowing the whole of society to move smoothly without opposition. The novel portrays a society that has been conditioned in their ability to understand the world. With this altered understanding individuals are unable
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According to the Director, “the secret to happiness and virtue – liking what you’ve got to do. All conditioning aims at that: making people like their unescapable social destiny” (16). Basically, people are forced to like what they do and given no alternative decision. Because they are not given the choice to select which social class they will be part of, individuals are unable to understand any other way of life. They are involuntarily required to be content with what has been given to them. Conditioning and conformity avert opposition within the society and permit individuals to love what they do, but there are still problems that arise in society that cannot be prevented such as displeasure, pain, stress and death. As these feelings represent personal responses to conflict, it is vital to the success of society that they are smothered. In order to cope with this issue, society encourages the use of the drug soma to significantly disguise these negative effects. Fundamentally, the soma acts as a form of control to eliminate the possibility of troublesome or radical outcomes. For example, when John attempts to petition against soma rations to the Deltas, they rebel seeing their soma deprivation as appalling. However, the police are able to control the crowd by gassing the room (210). The soma has made them unaware of their own individual persons, perpetually removing the threat and allowing for the reemergence of love and
According to the Director, “the secret to happiness and virtue – liking what you’ve got to do. All conditioning aims at that: making people like their unescapable social destiny” (16). Basically, people are forced to like what they do and given no alternative decision. Because they are not given the choice to select which social class they will be part of, individuals are unable to understand any other way of life. They are involuntarily required to be content with what has been given to them. Conditioning and conformity avert opposition within the society and permit individuals to love what they do, but there are still problems that arise in society that cannot be prevented such as displeasure, pain, stress and death. As these feelings represent personal responses to conflict, it is vital to the success of society that they are smothered. In order to cope with this issue, society encourages the use of the drug soma to significantly disguise these negative effects. Fundamentally, the soma acts as a form of control to eliminate the possibility of troublesome or radical outcomes. For example, when John attempts to petition against soma rations to the Deltas, they rebel seeing their soma deprivation as appalling. However, the police are able to control the crowd by gassing the room (210). The soma has made them unaware of their own individual persons, perpetually removing the threat and allowing for the reemergence of love and