Freedom In Brave New World

The novel Brave New World by Aldous Huxley is an epitome of a future dystopia where everything is censored or controlled. Everyone is created in a factory and conditioned to think and behave in a certain manner. Each and every person is brought up to do specific work and is not exposed to life outside of their caste. From the time people are born to the time they are shipped to work they are only exposed to what the conditioning of their caste calls for. This includes being taught to scorn certain things such as books and listening to sayings during their slumber to train individuals to truly believe what they say. Even when an effort to show people of this society what true freedom is made, the very thought is dismissed due to the ignorance of individuals. Everything is controlled in the novel Brave New World, from how individuals think to what caste you are in, the government regulates everything in their society. Conditioning and hypnopaedia deter everyone from having the capability to form their own opinion or truly understand the concept of freedom. …show more content…
Injecting alcohol into an embryo to lessen it’s intelligence and exposing embryos to certain weather patterns are ways the government regulates and decides what that person will do in the future. After the embryos have matured to a infant, conditioning and hypnopaedia will begin. One of the conditioning practices used is the process of exposing babies to books and then shocking them and blaring a loud siren to frighten them. Such actions teach children that books represent traumatic moments and will grow up believing so. When children are not awake and aware of their conditioning, hypnopaedia is used to brainwash them without their