Psychological Conditioning In Brave New World Essay

“People believe in God because they’ve been conditioned to believe in God.”(241). There are many aspects of conditioning throughout Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, and conditioning exists in our society today. Although our conditioning is not at the extent of the society in the novel we expect certain characteristics. Brave New World begins its conditioning of the population from the beginning of life by industrially breeding humans instead of natural birth. The genetic structure of the DNA is manipulated by adding alcohol, chemical additives, or depriving the embryos of oxygen. Humans in this world are biologically conditioned to have certain abilities in order for them to fulfill their function in society. All of the conditioning of the society is for the goal of making people like, and even love, their prescribed social destiny. The society also uses psychological conditioning to create a kind of perfection. The psychological conditioning is controlled through hypnopaedia, or sleep-teaching, and the World Rulers are able to create the identities of their people as they need them. In society today we are conditioned to give a certain response …show more content…
As was stated some people simply believe in God because they have been raised to believe in God, and not because they genuinely believe. Religion also conditions opinions on political issues such as abortion and gay rights. Those who are religious are taught from a young age that homosexuality and abortion are not “God’s way”, but that is where parents affect the conditioning again as they can support or negate that belief. The conditioning of the society in Brave New World stems from our society’s conditioning. The conditioning of the novel is just much more extreme in some ways as they are genetically changing humans whereas the conditioning of real life is behavioral. However both types of conditioning are quite harmful to the people that are being