“The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformist who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood” (Martin Luther King, Jr). In Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, World Controllers try to make the perfect society that works seamlessly together and to have citizens that are always happy. In this dystopian novel the world in organized into caste systems of highly specialized workers to low class people who do the simplest jobs. To many people the world is complete, but to others, it seems they don’t have individuality and they think that things are unnatural. In Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, the government controls the peace and citizens with soma, a caste system and classical conditioning for many reasons.
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Alphas lead the world because they are the most intelligent and maintain the highest-level jobs, compared to the Epsilons, who are the lowest cast and do the jobs no one else wants to do.
“The lower the caste,” said Mr. Foster, “the shorter the oxygen.” The first organ affected was the brain. After that the skeleton. At seventy per cent of normal oxygen you got dwarfs”.(Huxley 14)
This oxygen deprivation technique is used in Gammas, Deltas and Epsilons, but the Epsilons are restricted the most, as embryos they are only given 20 percent oxygen to grow. The Epsilons also develop a dwarf like stature, because their growth is stunted and unable to mature normally. The next method is also critical to developing the caste system and it is called Bokanosky’s Process. This process is exclusive to only the Gammas, Deltas and Epsilons it generates identical twins to do identical jobs.
“One egg, one embryo, one adult—normally. But a bokanovskified egg will bud, will proliferate, will divide. From eight to ninety-six buds, and every bud will grow into a perfectly formed embryo, and every embryo into a full-sized adult”. (Huxley …show more content…
Heat conditioning is an example of how they prepare the tropical workers, the embryos are kept in hot tunnels to allow them to adapt to harsh heat. “By the time they are decanted the embryos had a horror of cold”(Huxley 16). As the embryos become adults, they have jobs like mining, steel working and live in tropical conditions around the world. This conditioning with heat ensures that the workers will love heat and only feel comfortable in these conditions, making them the perfect workers who never want to stop working. Further down the line of conditioning, they also directly condition babies. This type of conditioning is known as Neo-Pavlovian Conditioning which takes place in infant nurseries. The infants are given book and flowers followed by electroshocks and loud noises, so the babies develop a fear of those items. “They’ll grow up with what the psychologists used to call an ‘instinctive’ hatred of books and flowers. Reflexes unalterably conditioned”(Huxley 22). With the control of books, they develop to be less intelligent because they are withheld valuable information and reading skills. This control is crucial to the government, because they don’t need low class citizens to subject themselves to other desires. The flowers on the other hand, have a complex reason for why they want the infants to hate nature. The government wants the children to hate nature and the country so they will
The …show more content…
Alphas lead the world because they are the most intelligent and maintain the highest-level jobs, compared to the Epsilons, who are the lowest cast and do the jobs no one else wants to do.
“The lower the caste,” said Mr. Foster, “the shorter the oxygen.” The first organ affected was the brain. After that the skeleton. At seventy per cent of normal oxygen you got dwarfs”.(Huxley 14)
This oxygen deprivation technique is used in Gammas, Deltas and Epsilons, but the Epsilons are restricted the most, as embryos they are only given 20 percent oxygen to grow. The Epsilons also develop a dwarf like stature, because their growth is stunted and unable to mature normally. The next method is also critical to developing the caste system and it is called Bokanosky’s Process. This process is exclusive to only the Gammas, Deltas and Epsilons it generates identical twins to do identical jobs.
“One egg, one embryo, one adult—normally. But a bokanovskified egg will bud, will proliferate, will divide. From eight to ninety-six buds, and every bud will grow into a perfectly formed embryo, and every embryo into a full-sized adult”. (Huxley …show more content…
Heat conditioning is an example of how they prepare the tropical workers, the embryos are kept in hot tunnels to allow them to adapt to harsh heat. “By the time they are decanted the embryos had a horror of cold”(Huxley 16). As the embryos become adults, they have jobs like mining, steel working and live in tropical conditions around the world. This conditioning with heat ensures that the workers will love heat and only feel comfortable in these conditions, making them the perfect workers who never want to stop working. Further down the line of conditioning, they also directly condition babies. This type of conditioning is known as Neo-Pavlovian Conditioning which takes place in infant nurseries. The infants are given book and flowers followed by electroshocks and loud noises, so the babies develop a fear of those items. “They’ll grow up with what the psychologists used to call an ‘instinctive’ hatred of books and flowers. Reflexes unalterably conditioned”(Huxley 22). With the control of books, they develop to be less intelligent because they are withheld valuable information and reading skills. This control is crucial to the government, because they don’t need low class citizens to subject themselves to other desires. The flowers on the other hand, have a complex reason for why they want the infants to hate nature. The government wants the children to hate nature and the country so they will