Birth Control Brave New World Analysis

Brave New World and Birth Control The article “Birth control: World of Invention, 2006 Updated: April 30, 2006” defines birth control: or contraception, is the use of physical barriers, timing of sexual intercourse, chemicals, or a combination of these methods to prevent pregnancy. Many methods have been designed for women's use, but few are available to men. There are quite a few reasons to use some form of birth control. The main one being to avoid pregnancy. Other reasons could be to prevent contracting an STD/STI and regulate hormone levels in order to control one’s menstrual cycle.

In Aldous Huxley’s banned book “Brave New World” there are a couple of practices of birth control. There is the “pill” which those who have to take the

It is the people’s duty to have multiple partners and continuously have sexual intercourse. When I say synthetic happiness I am referring to a drug called soma they take that puts them into a mood where they are just blissful to be here today. This drug essentially gets rid of true emotions and falsifies a feeling of contentment. These citizens of the World Sate are required to take the drug. In order to keep the number of residents under control women simply just don’t have kids. This brings up the question of how kids are born. This is peculiar and inhumane in my opinion. The book describes kids being born in test tubes, being cloned and multiplied many times over. This is a large disadvantage of the system. Since babies are not born into this world naturally there are no mothers or fathers. This leads to having no families along with no bond between people and mainly no LOVE. Though there is no true definition of love, it is hard to have such extreme feelings under these circumstances. This is actually a main priority of the World State leaders. If people loved each other it would mess up this entire system. Another reason they control the population is due to the fact that the leaders are worried about overpopulating to point where the world wouldn’t be able to produce enough food to support all of the people. Another benefit of

Each human being is brought into the World State with their lives already planned out for them. They don’t even get to live their life how they may want to. From day one they are habituated to like and dislike certain things and ideas. Since the authority controls the reproduction rate of humans within the World State they have learned to manipulate the process. The technique in which they use to manipulate the process is by engineering the way the person will look and even think. Five social classes have been set up grouping everybody into a certain category. The Alphas are the best looking and smartest people. From there is goes down to the Betas, Gammas, Deltas, and at the bottom are the Epsilons. The Alphas do all of the essential work that needs a lot of intellectual from scholarly individuals. The Epsilons do all of the crummy work that does not need a great deal of thought. The other classes just fill in the other roles