A world of artifically created society
While I was reading Brave New World, it reminded me a lot of 1984. This is because both books depict a world which is dominated by the government with the use of technology. Just like a company produces consumer goods, in Brave New World the Hatchery produces human beings. The assembly line is now used for the manufacturing of human beings. The Utopian society that is presented has only one purpose, to produce and control human beings. They produce them according to their status and give them a certain amount of intelligence. With this people accept their given roles in society without question. Conditioning makes them incapable of performing any other function than the one they are assigned.
Also, they try to control the behavior of the children they are producing. They give the babies electric shocks so they will have a hatred for books and flowers. The director mentions that "[the babies] will be safe from books and botany all thier lives" (22). With this much control, they pratically want the human beings to do exactly what they have been designed to perform. They can condition the babies to do what ever they are needed for.
With the use of technology to produce babies, there is no more sexual reproduction. Words like mother and father are thought to be considered pornographic. So every human beings is made to complete a certain task in the world. That person has no freedom and is being controlled in whatever he does. That person is a property of the government and can only abide by its rules. This is also a form of manipulation where one has so much power over another that he cannot realize what is true and what is not.
Brave New World, presents another method of manipulation to control human beings.
Also, they try to control the behavior of the children they are producing. They give the babies electric shocks so they will have a hatred for books and flowers. The director mentions that "[the babies] will be safe from books and botany all thier lives" (22). With this much control, they pratically want the human beings to do exactly what they have been designed to perform. They can condition the babies to do what ever they are needed for.
With the use of technology to produce babies, there is no more sexual reproduction. Words like mother and father are thought to be considered pornographic. So every human beings is made to complete a certain task in the world. That person has no freedom and is being controlled in whatever he does. That person is a property of the government and can only abide by its rules. This is also a form of manipulation where one has so much power over another that he cannot realize what is true and what is not.
Brave New World, presents another method of manipulation to control human beings.
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