It rots the core of the perfect world, transforming from utopia to a dystopia, “no matter how much engineering and conditioning is put forth society remains the same” (Firchow 9). A community can be made to look as pure as possible, but mankind will always be there and always be flawed. The illusion of perfection is perpetuated by propaganda. Ironically, propaganda within Brave New World is used to extend the delusion of perfection and to prohibit outside sources from “brainwashing” the masses. Within the novel, books literature and art are forbidden, “the anxieties of society about the power of literature to undermine social control, putting into play the ideal that, if it can alter what is meant to be unalterable, the very act of reading
