What has Society become? Stop and take a look at yourself. When was the last time you took something for granted? The last time you complained about something that actually wasn 't a big deal? You start to say to yourself, “Yeah, I do that often.” The world we live in today mainly focuses on getting from point A to point B in an orderly fashion, rather than thinking about how or why we got there in the first place. Aldous Huxley, author of Brave New World, gathers questions to discuss, what society has/will become. Set six hundred years in the future, Huxley, writes about a dystopia in London. In this dystopia, people are deprived of their passions and nature. Bernard Marx is conditioned to believe he lives in this “perfect” world; yet,
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Creating a world of individualistic people will lead to unique collaborations amongst our society. While the Director is leading the students through the nurseries he voices, “Till at last the child 's mind is these suggestions, and the sum of the suggestions is the child 's mind. And not the child 's mind only. The adult 's mind too-all his life long. The mind that judges and desire and decides-made up of these suggestions. But all these suggestions are our suggestions... Suggestions from the State” (Huxley 28-29). In the story, their attempt to brainwash everyone from birth is not hidden. It is how their society removes individualism and make a more uniform world. What they think is creating an utopia is actually creating a dystopia. Taking away individualisms leads to more issues amongst society members. The objective for the New World is to eliminate the individual from society. This doesn 't mean eliminating all the people; it means conditioning those people so that they don 't really portray themselves as individuals. After John reads passages from Shakespeare to Helmholtz, Helmholtz says, “Why was [Shakespeare] such a marvellous propaganda technician? Because he had so many insane, excruciating things to get excited about. You 've got to be hurt and upset; otherwise you can 't think of the really good, penetrating X-rayish phrases” (Huxley 185). Shakespeare propaganda was good because his literature showed how horrible a human can feel when they 're not following the ‘New World.’ Shakespeare 's tragic and exaggerated themes helped teach people to stay with the norm and not be individuals. The propaganda is used as a scare tactic to keep people in line. They don 't allow them to have emotions or feelings so they can be robotic. This lack of sadness or joy comes from the “human condition” because events are not
Creating a world of individualistic people will lead to unique collaborations amongst our society. While the Director is leading the students through the nurseries he voices, “Till at last the child 's mind is these suggestions, and the sum of the suggestions is the child 's mind. And not the child 's mind only. The adult 's mind too-all his life long. The mind that judges and desire and decides-made up of these suggestions. But all these suggestions are our suggestions... Suggestions from the State” (Huxley 28-29). In the story, their attempt to brainwash everyone from birth is not hidden. It is how their society removes individualism and make a more uniform world. What they think is creating an utopia is actually creating a dystopia. Taking away individualisms leads to more issues amongst society members. The objective for the New World is to eliminate the individual from society. This doesn 't mean eliminating all the people; it means conditioning those people so that they don 't really portray themselves as individuals. After John reads passages from Shakespeare to Helmholtz, Helmholtz says, “Why was [Shakespeare] such a marvellous propaganda technician? Because he had so many insane, excruciating things to get excited about. You 've got to be hurt and upset; otherwise you can 't think of the really good, penetrating X-rayish phrases” (Huxley 185). Shakespeare propaganda was good because his literature showed how horrible a human can feel when they 're not following the ‘New World.’ Shakespeare 's tragic and exaggerated themes helped teach people to stay with the norm and not be individuals. The propaganda is used as a scare tactic to keep people in line. They don 't allow them to have emotions or feelings so they can be robotic. This lack of sadness or joy comes from the “human condition” because events are not