Power of Control
Huxley expresses the power of control various times throughout the book as it explains how the World State can function without problems. The world leaders create citizens in a factory and made to fulfill their role within the community. Thousands of tests are done on the humans to brainwash their minds and keep them conditioned. They are constantly under the control of the World State’s leaders, causing physical and mental stress. Unconditioned people are a danger to themselves and to the community when they finally snap. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley proves that when the human mind is at its breaking point, it becomes open to corrupt, immoral ideas.
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Repetitive sayings are molded into their brains as Baker claims, "In BNW, the synthetic myths can be divided into five groups: jingles, rewritten nursery rhymes, rewritten proverbs, new proverbs, and pseudostatements" (Baker 86). To ensure the loyalty of the citizens, speakers play words under each pillow of all the sleeping children. Phrases are whispered into their ears giving them suggestive thoughts using hypnopædia or sleep-teaching. This allows the kids to learn explicit subjects while they sleep and wake up with new information. The leaders use hypnopædia to identify the children with a certain castes or social groups. This method gives the leaders a big hand in controlling the minds of the children. As the kids become adults, the jingles and quotes are still in use to help themselves stay in line. The controllers work diligently to embed these sayings into the kids minds forever, "By a method or trial and error they had worked out a number of techniques and procedures, which they have used very effectively without, however, knowing precisely why they were effective. Today the art of mind-control is in the process of becoming a science. The practitioners of this science know what they are doing and why” (Brave New World Revisited 39). In another attempt to influence the masses, an opiate called Soma is created. This “perfect drug” allows the citizens to escape reality and their repressed emotions, all while hallucinating and ending with “no” side effects. This drug keeps the masses docile and restrains them from making their own decisions and actions. Many people use the drug and see it as completely normal and ordinary. They feel the drug is safe and keeps them happy. "After ectogenesis and conditioning, Soma was the most powerful instrument of authority in the hands of the Controllers of the World State" (Baker 70). Though supposedly there are no side
Huxley expresses the power of control various times throughout the book as it explains how the World State can function without problems. The world leaders create citizens in a factory and made to fulfill their role within the community. Thousands of tests are done on the humans to brainwash their minds and keep them conditioned. They are constantly under the control of the World State’s leaders, causing physical and mental stress. Unconditioned people are a danger to themselves and to the community when they finally snap. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley proves that when the human mind is at its breaking point, it becomes open to corrupt, immoral ideas.
Genetic engineering is deliberately modifying the characteristics of an …show more content…
Repetitive sayings are molded into their brains as Baker claims, "In BNW, the synthetic myths can be divided into five groups: jingles, rewritten nursery rhymes, rewritten proverbs, new proverbs, and pseudostatements" (Baker 86). To ensure the loyalty of the citizens, speakers play words under each pillow of all the sleeping children. Phrases are whispered into their ears giving them suggestive thoughts using hypnopædia or sleep-teaching. This allows the kids to learn explicit subjects while they sleep and wake up with new information. The leaders use hypnopædia to identify the children with a certain castes or social groups. This method gives the leaders a big hand in controlling the minds of the children. As the kids become adults, the jingles and quotes are still in use to help themselves stay in line. The controllers work diligently to embed these sayings into the kids minds forever, "By a method or trial and error they had worked out a number of techniques and procedures, which they have used very effectively without, however, knowing precisely why they were effective. Today the art of mind-control is in the process of becoming a science. The practitioners of this science know what they are doing and why” (Brave New World Revisited 39). In another attempt to influence the masses, an opiate called Soma is created. This “perfect drug” allows the citizens to escape reality and their repressed emotions, all while hallucinating and ending with “no” side effects. This drug keeps the masses docile and restrains them from making their own decisions and actions. Many people use the drug and see it as completely normal and ordinary. They feel the drug is safe and keeps them happy. "After ectogenesis and conditioning, Soma was the most powerful instrument of authority in the hands of the Controllers of the World State" (Baker 70). Though supposedly there are no side