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Manipulation In Aldous Huxley's Brave New World

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Does your mind ever get manipulated by outsiders such as peers, media, and the government? Would you say that the manipulation of the minds of the people in the world state is a bad or good thing? Take an attempt to read the book “Brave New World” and it is promised that you will agree that this act of conduct is a bad thing. No one wants to be mentally controlled to do everything that everyone else does. Having the other members of the world state already mentally manipulated is a bad thing to those who are trying to mentally be themselves. There were multiple occasions where a character from the book seeks to be himself, but was let down when another character caught an uncomfortable vibe from him expressing himself. By trying to be himself, Bernard wanted someone to feel the same way he felt as far as emotionally. Bernard says, “But wouldn’t you like to be free to be happy in some other way.” (Huxley 91). Lenina got very uncomfortable and even cried when she starts to feel an ounce of emotion. What good can you make out of that? You have an individual who just wants to be himself. How is that a bad thing? Then there is a drug named “Soma” that the society has basically been conditioned from birth to take in order to stay what they consider to be happy. “Why can’t you take soma when you have those …show more content…

The society is so messed up in the head that the things that a earth human would usually get emotionally down for, the society is sort of happy about. “To think we can go on being socially useful even after we’re dead.”(Huxley 98) Reading that has to make you feel some type of way about this society. You should not manipulate anyone to think anyway like that. This society is full of terrible/bad morals. The driver say,”Whoever he may have been, he was happy when he was alive.” (Huxley 75) How can you automatically declare when someone has lived an happy life. The world state is a

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