How does a government take complete control? A government can take control in many ways. In Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, the government takes everything away from the people. They take away the populations’ humanity. The people are very happy and satisfied with the lives they live. If they ever have a bad day, they always have an escape. The government has taken everything away from the people. The people only know the information that the government wants them to know. Religion was stripped away and replaced with worshiping a human being, Henry Ford. “We have a world state now. And Ford’s Day celebrations, and Community Sings, and Solidarity Services” (Huxley 52). They do not have any sense of what family is. The same process produces
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It is normal to have multiple partners in one week. They consider it abnormal to stay with one person, “it’s such horribly bad form to go on and on like this with one man . . . and you know how strongly the D.H.C. objects to anything intense or long drawn. Four months of Henry Foster, without having another man–why, he’d be furious if he knew . . .” (Huxley 41). The government does not want any person to go back to the ways that it used to be, such as have a long relationship with one person, or even start a family. People are able to have sex as much as they like, and never have to worry about getting pregnant, “Science . . . had destroyed religious superstitions surrounding the subject of sex, while technological improvements in contraception had removed the fear of pregnancy” (Lasch 2). The women never have to worry about having a baby, because they are taught to take many precautions. It is simply unacceptable for any woman to have a child. By giving people soma and encouraging them to have sexual relations with whoever they want, the government gains control. This gain in power results from keeping the people happy, so they never have any need for change, or even want to change the
It is normal to have multiple partners in one week. They consider it abnormal to stay with one person, “it’s such horribly bad form to go on and on like this with one man . . . and you know how strongly the D.H.C. objects to anything intense or long drawn. Four months of Henry Foster, without having another man–why, he’d be furious if he knew . . .” (Huxley 41). The government does not want any person to go back to the ways that it used to be, such as have a long relationship with one person, or even start a family. People are able to have sex as much as they like, and never have to worry about getting pregnant, “Science . . . had destroyed religious superstitions surrounding the subject of sex, while technological improvements in contraception had removed the fear of pregnancy” (Lasch 2). The women never have to worry about having a baby, because they are taught to take many precautions. It is simply unacceptable for any woman to have a child. By giving people soma and encouraging them to have sexual relations with whoever they want, the government gains control. This gain in power results from keeping the people happy, so they never have any need for change, or even want to change the