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Chaos In Brave New World

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What is a world without chaos, pain, or misery like? It is featured in Brave New World, a dystopian novel written by Aldous Huxley. Set in the future, people are born from eggs and live in a contained community, also known as the World State, that keep them separate from the outside world. One day, John, a savage who grew up outside the World State, is introduced into the civilized community. He is so excited to discover this new world, but after spending time there, he is astonished and appalled by what he finds. Controllers, or the leaders of the World State, condition the infants to identify with a certain class: Alpha, Beta, Delta, or Epsilon. The Alphas are the highest class, and the Epsilons are the lowest. Each class has a different …show more content…

They have no individuality. Beginning as early as infants, they are brainwashed into sharing the exact same likes and dislikes. "All individuals are conditioned by electric shock and hypnopaedia (sleep conditioning) to reject or desire what the State dictates” (Brave). For example, using fear and pain, they are all taught to hate books and love flowers. Another way thoughts are imprinted into a person’s mind is through hypnopaedia. This is when the same phrase is constantly repeated out loud during sleep. The people become unable to form their own opinions. “The Brave New World is mindless” (Clareson). Without thoughts of their own, the citizens of World State are like infants: unknowing and obedient. One of the things they are taught is that they are all happy. However, there are a few people who do not fall perfectly into society’s lifestyle. Bernard Marx is one of those conformists. "Yes, 'Everybody's happy nowadays.' We begin giving the children that at five. But wouldn't you like to be free to be happy in some other way, Lenina? In your own way, for example; not in everybody else's way" (Huxley 91). Bernard realizes how his happiness is not real, and he wants to be able to acquire it himself. Bernard also makes a good comparison when he expresses that they are like slaves to the Controllers. They are incapable of breaking their years of conditioning. "How is …show more content…

The embarrassment of being a mother, of being old and fat and no longer physically beautiful, is too much for her, so she chooses to drug herself with soma, eventually dying from an overdose" (Brave). This shows how Linda struggles being old and not as beautiful as she was before. Because civilization shapes her to believe it is unacceptable, it leads to her death. The people living in the World State are not truly happy; they are just conditioned to believe so. Without strong emotions like love, passion, and anger, they are like mindless puppets. Their thoughts, beliefs, and opinions are controlled by the Controllers. They are puppets lacking individuality and personality. While the Controllers have successfully created a stable society, it is far from perfect; the people lose who they are, or rather, they never get to decide because they are conditioned to accept their class and never be anything different. So why keep a stable society when the people in it are just brain-washed

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