Why would a society suppress and disable its citizens from having a choice? In Aldous Huxley’s science fiction novel, Brave New World, the government regulates how civilization functions by controlling every aspect of it. All of their abilities and personality traits are either decided before birth or conditioned into them during youth; they do not have the right to decide their fate. Huxley does not give the citizens in Brave New World the ability to choose in order to ridicule the restricted freedom in the dystopian society. The people of their community are not able to educate themselves due to the restraints proposed by their world leaders. Mustapha Mond, one of the few leaders, discredits the authenticity of society’s knowledge of science,
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People are unable to experiment and discover the mysteries of science as the government constrains what they are able to uncover. This is so the people are not able to expand their range of thought and become more intelligent than they are expected to be. On the opposite end, religion is also controlled and limited. Mond explains why religion can not be flexible, “‘God isn’t compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness’” (237). People do not have the freedom to worship and believe as they wish; they are brought up to only praise Ford and nobody else. The government controls how religion is practiced so they can keep society in order and have the control over citizen’s actions with customs like solidarity services. Their beliefs are also monitored by managing what literature is available to consume by the public. Mond explains why some literature is prohibited, “‘...our world is not the same as Othello’s world … you can’t make tragedies without social instability. The world’s stable now’” (223). The government moderates what is available to read by interdicting old written works. Mond …show more content…
When Linda passed, a nurse was shocked with John’s reaction to death, acted out in front of children, “Should she speak to him … of what fatal mischief he might do to these poor innocents? Undoing all their wholesome death-conditioning with this disgusting outcry - as though death were something terrible, as though any one mattered as much as all that” (211). The children are conditioned to feel apathetic towards the concept of death and have no intense feelings towards someone else. They are unable to develop and experience personal connections with others due to the treatment they are given during their upbringing. Along with emotional connections, the people are disabled from feeling genuine love for others. Fanny condemns Lenina for her feelings of loyalty, “‘I really do think you ought to be careful. It’s such horribly bad form to go on and on like this with one man … you know how strongly the D.H.C. objects to anything intense or long-drawn’” (53). The government has brainwashed the citizens to reject commitment so they are detached from their feelings and do not experience love. They are expected to share various partners so the stigma against sex is absent and the government can keep control of reproduction; they do not allow their people to experience intimate relationships for their own selfish reasons. Furthermore, the government tries to limit the human
People are unable to experiment and discover the mysteries of science as the government constrains what they are able to uncover. This is so the people are not able to expand their range of thought and become more intelligent than they are expected to be. On the opposite end, religion is also controlled and limited. Mond explains why religion can not be flexible, “‘God isn’t compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness’” (237). People do not have the freedom to worship and believe as they wish; they are brought up to only praise Ford and nobody else. The government controls how religion is practiced so they can keep society in order and have the control over citizen’s actions with customs like solidarity services. Their beliefs are also monitored by managing what literature is available to consume by the public. Mond explains why some literature is prohibited, “‘...our world is not the same as Othello’s world … you can’t make tragedies without social instability. The world’s stable now’” (223). The government moderates what is available to read by interdicting old written works. Mond …show more content…
When Linda passed, a nurse was shocked with John’s reaction to death, acted out in front of children, “Should she speak to him … of what fatal mischief he might do to these poor innocents? Undoing all their wholesome death-conditioning with this disgusting outcry - as though death were something terrible, as though any one mattered as much as all that” (211). The children are conditioned to feel apathetic towards the concept of death and have no intense feelings towards someone else. They are unable to develop and experience personal connections with others due to the treatment they are given during their upbringing. Along with emotional connections, the people are disabled from feeling genuine love for others. Fanny condemns Lenina for her feelings of loyalty, “‘I really do think you ought to be careful. It’s such horribly bad form to go on and on like this with one man … you know how strongly the D.H.C. objects to anything intense or long-drawn’” (53). The government has brainwashed the citizens to reject commitment so they are detached from their feelings and do not experience love. They are expected to share various partners so the stigma against sex is absent and the government can keep control of reproduction; they do not allow their people to experience intimate relationships for their own selfish reasons. Furthermore, the government tries to limit the human