Brave New World Essay In the novel Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, the government uses many methods of brainwashing to control the people of their society and force them to submit to the will of the higher-ups. Huxley was trying to make a connection between his writing and the world he lived in through his use of details, tone, and diction. In his time period, people were easily swayed and deluded by their culture, government, and drug dependency. To begin, one way that the government brainwashes its citizens is through the way they have declined the standard of society--moral and cultural decay. Huxley uses details to describe how society has gone downhill. In chapter one, Huxley describes Bokanovsky’s process by saying, “The surrogate
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In chapter ten Huxley states, “His intellectual eminence carries with it corresponding moral responsibilities. The greater a man’s talents, the greater his power to lead astray. It is better that one should suffer than that many should be corrupted.” (147-148) His tone is very matter-of-fact and robotic in the way that he says any threat to society should suffer rather than have society suffer as a whole, so anyone who strays from the brainwashed state and tries to corrupt one that is brainwashed must be eliminated. In chapter sixteen, John asks why they don’t just make everyone an Alpha Double Plus and Mustapha Mond replies by saying that it would kill them, “We believe in happiness and stability. A society of Alphas couldn’t fail to be unstable and miserable.” He has a very patronizing tone. He’s talking down to John, saying this is the way it is and any other way would be ridiculous, stupid even. If everyone was equal, they wouldn’t have a caste system and everyone would be smart, too smart to become mindless slaves of society. In chapter eighteen, John the Savage develops an angry tone when he says, “I’m damned if I’ll go on being experimented with. Not for all the Controllers in the world. I shall go away to-morrow too.” John is basically proving to us that he, and anyone else, can leave the World State at any time they wish, after all, Linda left and even had a baby. It’s
In chapter ten Huxley states, “His intellectual eminence carries with it corresponding moral responsibilities. The greater a man’s talents, the greater his power to lead astray. It is better that one should suffer than that many should be corrupted.” (147-148) His tone is very matter-of-fact and robotic in the way that he says any threat to society should suffer rather than have society suffer as a whole, so anyone who strays from the brainwashed state and tries to corrupt one that is brainwashed must be eliminated. In chapter sixteen, John asks why they don’t just make everyone an Alpha Double Plus and Mustapha Mond replies by saying that it would kill them, “We believe in happiness and stability. A society of Alphas couldn’t fail to be unstable and miserable.” He has a very patronizing tone. He’s talking down to John, saying this is the way it is and any other way would be ridiculous, stupid even. If everyone was equal, they wouldn’t have a caste system and everyone would be smart, too smart to become mindless slaves of society. In chapter eighteen, John the Savage develops an angry tone when he says, “I’m damned if I’ll go on being experimented with. Not for all the Controllers in the world. I shall go away to-morrow too.” John is basically proving to us that he, and anyone else, can leave the World State at any time they wish, after all, Linda left and even had a baby. It’s