Throughout these weeks’ chapter readings, I realized Jennifer Government contains many elements that can directly be connected to the novel Brave New World, the famous Shakespearean tragedy, Macbeth and the blockbuster film, Divergent. In Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley, a majority of the world’s countries have come together to form one big country called the World State, in a similar manner to the United States in Jennifer Government. The citizens of both worlds are valued on their capability to maintain a job and fit into a set role. The children are raised to respect and accept the foundations of the self-interested society in which they are brought up in with no question. A prime example of this in Jennifer Government are Hayley’s pro-capitalist
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We’ve sold four hundred thousand pairs in three days, and in dollar terms that’s –” (107, Barry) to the global sales VP, Gregory Nike, it is palpable that he has little regard for the lives lost as he is indicating his plan can be justified with the skyrocketing profits from the Mercurys. Naturally someone would feel guilty if they ordered an assassination job, but John Nike seems to be insensitive to this subject matter as there is no evidence of guilt caused by the blood on his hands. In Brave New World, humans are categorized into 5 different castes before birth through different methods, such as depriving the Epsilon embryos of oxygen so they only have enough intelligence to perform tedious labour for the rest of their forlorn lives. This categorization is reinforced by nurture, through the schooling given to the children specific to their caste. If further conditioning is necessary for the few deviations in the population, then ‘hypnopaedic methods’, also known as sleep teaching are used to imprint ideas into their minds. Consequently, these methods cause the people of the World State to have false happiness due to the belief that they are in the best position possible according to their ability and accept it without
We’ve sold four hundred thousand pairs in three days, and in dollar terms that’s –” (107, Barry) to the global sales VP, Gregory Nike, it is palpable that he has little regard for the lives lost as he is indicating his plan can be justified with the skyrocketing profits from the Mercurys. Naturally someone would feel guilty if they ordered an assassination job, but John Nike seems to be insensitive to this subject matter as there is no evidence of guilt caused by the blood on his hands. In Brave New World, humans are categorized into 5 different castes before birth through different methods, such as depriving the Epsilon embryos of oxygen so they only have enough intelligence to perform tedious labour for the rest of their forlorn lives. This categorization is reinforced by nurture, through the schooling given to the children specific to their caste. If further conditioning is necessary for the few deviations in the population, then ‘hypnopaedic methods’, also known as sleep teaching are used to imprint ideas into their minds. Consequently, these methods cause the people of the World State to have false happiness due to the belief that they are in the best position possible according to their ability and accept it without