Government Control In Aldous Huxley's Brave New World

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Author George Orwell created in his book, 1984, a world controlled using fear and hate. Government is in control of every aspect of its citizens, even controlling their vocabulary. Huxley’s world in Brave New World is controlled exclusively by science from the time the embryo is placed into the bottle to the person’s time of death. Huxley’s world believes that there can never be change (even though science usually supports change) and by sacrificing change, they are maintaining the stability of the world. They seek perfection. Morals and convictions are no longer controlled by man, instead all is controlled by science; even jobs are assigned by science. All self-will has been stripped away as children made in hospitals are taught even as they

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