A Brave New World Since the beginning of humanity population control has played a large part in every society, whether it be natural or forced. In A Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, the D.N.C. controls the population by using advanced technology such as contraceptives, cutting out female ovaries, and using hypnopaedic conditioning. The human population is growing at an exponential rate and due to that population control methods such as contraception, sterilization, and family planning are such a big controversy in today’s society. People who go against population control suggest that it could be harmful to society as a whole. However, the truth of the matter is that population control has many crucial benefits and keeps the world at homeostasis.
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While speaking about how they train them for contraceptives, they say “Years of intensive hypnopaedia and, from twelve to seven, Malthusian drill three times a week had made the taking of these precautions almost as automatic and inevitable as blinking”(Huxley 77). While they are sleeping as babies they play recordings over and over again to train their brains to think exactly like their caste is suppose to. Bernard max was thinking about how much was done to them, “One hundred repetitions three nights a week for four years, thought Bernard Marx, who was a specialist on hypnopaedia. Sixty-two thousand four hundred repetitions make one truth. Idiots”(Huxley 47). They train their brains exactly how they want them to act so that whenever they have a second thought they automatically replay the sayings in their heads and say them outloud. This happens many times throughout the book and it just goes to show how the people of the new world are controlled by hypnopaedic …show more content…
They are so well trained that even when lenina is high on soma she still remembers the steps perfectly, “And yet, bottled as she was, and in spite of that second gramme of soma, Lenina did not forget to take all the contraceptive precautions prescribed by the regulations”(Huxley 77). As previously read, they are trained at a very young age to do exactly what the recordings say and one of those recordings talked about how to take contraceptives to prevent becoming a mother. As Linda tries to explain why she had a kid she remembers vividly taking the exact precautions, “Just think of it: me, a beta--having a baby: put yourself in my place. Though it wasn't my fault, I swear; because I still don't know how it happened, seeing that I did all the Malthusian Drill--you know, by numbers, one, two, three, four, always, I swear it”(Huxley 120). These precautions are set in place so that they don’t become mothers, one of the worst things you could call someone in the new world. They train them to take the contraceptives to prevent this from happening, but it also helps them control the population in each caste so that there are no rebellions and they can completely control
While speaking about how they train them for contraceptives, they say “Years of intensive hypnopaedia and, from twelve to seven, Malthusian drill three times a week had made the taking of these precautions almost as automatic and inevitable as blinking”(Huxley 77). While they are sleeping as babies they play recordings over and over again to train their brains to think exactly like their caste is suppose to. Bernard max was thinking about how much was done to them, “One hundred repetitions three nights a week for four years, thought Bernard Marx, who was a specialist on hypnopaedia. Sixty-two thousand four hundred repetitions make one truth. Idiots”(Huxley 47). They train their brains exactly how they want them to act so that whenever they have a second thought they automatically replay the sayings in their heads and say them outloud. This happens many times throughout the book and it just goes to show how the people of the new world are controlled by hypnopaedic …show more content…
They are so well trained that even when lenina is high on soma she still remembers the steps perfectly, “And yet, bottled as she was, and in spite of that second gramme of soma, Lenina did not forget to take all the contraceptive precautions prescribed by the regulations”(Huxley 77). As previously read, they are trained at a very young age to do exactly what the recordings say and one of those recordings talked about how to take contraceptives to prevent becoming a mother. As Linda tries to explain why she had a kid she remembers vividly taking the exact precautions, “Just think of it: me, a beta--having a baby: put yourself in my place. Though it wasn't my fault, I swear; because I still don't know how it happened, seeing that I did all the Malthusian Drill--you know, by numbers, one, two, three, four, always, I swear it”(Huxley 120). These precautions are set in place so that they don’t become mothers, one of the worst things you could call someone in the new world. They train them to take the contraceptives to prevent this from happening, but it also helps them control the population in each caste so that there are no rebellions and they can completely control