Totalitarian Government In Brave New World

In Brave New World, Aldous Huxley describes a totalitarian government that controls every aspect of every citizen's life. The government controls its citizens with science, technology, factories, and an industrial based religion. Throughout the book Huxley uses these themes to show the kind of society the World Controllers are trying to create. He does this to show what science and technology can do to a society. Huxley also shows that when technology is in the wrong hands society can take a turn for the worse. Huxley starts off Brave New World in a factory like setting where they produce offspring and condition them to do their jobs. This is the first example of how the totalitarian government controls its people through science. Scientists in the New World have developed the “Bokanovsky Process” (Huxley 6). The director describes it saying “One egg, one embryo, one adult-normality. 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. Making ninety-six human beings grow where only one grew before. Progress” (Huxley 6). How the Director describes the process shows that they are trying to control everyone by making them the exact same. The Director says that this discovery is …show more content…
Huxley shows all throughout the book that no matter what citizens do they will still be suppressed in some manner. This means that no one will feel jealous of the next, and that society with always stable. This can be a warning to people today not to fall for everything they are told. To stop a totalitarian government from taking over people need to stay independent, questioned what they are told, and be weary of dangerous technology. If citizens in the Brave New World did this they could become a new progressive society that can make leaps and bounds towards a better