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Hypnopedia In Aldous Huxley's Brave New World

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”Huxley’s vision, no Big Brother is required to deprive people of their anatomy, maturity and history. As he saw it, people will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.”(Postman)” In the book Brave New World citizens actions are influenced by soma, and hypnopedia.While Big Brother and fear was used to control the citizens of Oceania. Postman argued that Huxley’s vision is more relevant to today’s society. I agree with Postman, because I see more traces of Brave New World in our society than 1984. Some topics that connect our modern society to Brave New world are cloning, hypnopedia, and drug usage. Hypnopedia is used to control, and influence the ideas of human’s, even though it doesn’t …show more content…

Mass media is the most powerful tool used by the ruling class to manipulate the masses. It shapes and molds opinions and attitudes and defines what is normal and acceptable.” After waking up the citizens have developed a concept about any information that was repeated to them, the same way we develop ideas about different things when we listen to the media.
 Another connection between our two societies is our attempt of cloning just like their Bokanovsky’s Process. “The cells of these embryos were as a result, genetic copies, or clones, of the cells of three different people who donated the skin cells, one of them a patient afflicted with a genetic disorder called Leigh syndrome.” This piece of evidence tells about three people who donated skin cells, and had them genetically copied, which is one form of cloning just like the way they did in Brave New World” “In a first, Mitalipov and his privately funded team report that these cloned embryos were grown past an eight-cell size (where earlier attempts had stopped) into a full-blown early embryo, containing hundreds of embryonic stem cells. Embryonic cells taken from these cloned embryos were grown into six colonies of cells, the first successfully grown cloned human embryonic stem cells.” This is an example of a process very similar to the Bovkanovsky’s Process and

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Suggestions from the State” (21). What Huxley implies here is that the minds of the citizens are controlled by the state with certain technology, like soma. People are controlled in the World State by the soma, and with fake news, our news channels are controlling our own people of what to think. We are no longer coming up with our own ideas, rather we are being given them to benefit others. Later on in the book, Huxley talks about the disadvantages of technology.

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Aldous Huxley’s text, Brave New World, will leave you questioning your perspective on life and it’s choices. Within the novel, curious readers can see that government control over all in an attempt to create a utopia, can sometimes have a counter effect, creating a dystopia. Wielding it’s tool of conformity, The World State has forced its ideology into the minds of its people at a young age, in hopes of avoiding rebellion. In many ways this is how our society functions in the real world. The genre of Huxley's text may be fiction, but the society fabricated in Brave New World may not be so fictional after all.

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In Ray Bradbury’s dystopian novel, Fahrenheit 451, Bradbury paints a picture of a world that has given in to technology and its power. Neil Postman’s social criticism, Amusing Ourselves to Death Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business, reinforces Huxley’s prophecy that people would come to love their oppression and lose their ability to think. Society in 451 goes along with Postman’s supporting ideas and examples of Huxley’s predicted future. Huxleyan concepts are all throughout Fahrenheit 451, as 451 depicts an oppressed brainwashed society where the authorities would use whatever measures necessary to put down any attempts at rebellion. In Postman’s social critique, The Age of Show Business, Postman states, “I am saying something far

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During the early 20th century, the world was caught in a great political and social upheaval with the establishment of communism and fascism in Europe. This new ideology, coupled with the start of the Second World War, sent the world in distress. George Orwell an Aldous Huxley both began to create different worlds in their respective books, 1984 and Brave New World, which embodied their vision of what a future society might look like after the conclusion of the war. Key to both of these new societies is the development of advanced technologies that can be used to control the population, brainwash the children, demonstrate power, and manipulate the past. Central to both societies is the development of technology to control the population.

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Huxley's ideas that our society is numbed by things that we love and that everyone is almost happy to be somewhat oppressed is almost too real. It is pretty easy to see and make connections after evaluating our society that we live in. I agree with Neil Postmans assertions claiming that Brave New World is most relevant to our society. One of Postman’s claims that i related to is “people will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.” this is expressed in the book by the simple quote “community, identity, stability”(1).

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