Obedience In Brave New World

Control, ignorance, and obedience is all shown in the book Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. The society have some freedoms but are still controlled by the resident controllers and also bound by the Hypnopaedia. This resembles countries in our world now and also in history; counties have fought other countries to get away from societies that are controlled, wars for independence. People have the sense of independence and would never let something like the society in a Brave New World; history has proven it too. Mustafa Mond, the Resident Controller of Western Europe, tells a story of a war. A war that happened right before the society started, this war is referred to as the 9 years’ war. A biological war that killed millions of people so that this “society” could be controlled easier; so the controllers could start over and make a new world and way of living. Looking back at our own history, there was a war like this and a mass amount of people died; World War II and the holocaust. Gas chambers,

British armies doing as they’re told and taxing the Pilgrims that came to the “new world’ in search of freedom. The British did this to control the Pilgrims and also make them dependent on the British to survive; the pilgrims did not come all that way to have the same thing to happen them here. The pilgrims were resilient in their fight for freedom and it was proven at the Battle of Bunker Hill. Major General William Howe command his troops at the bottom of the hill. He led his troops up the hill, where General Prescott and his troops were waiting for them. The British attacked a total of three times and had a huge amount of troops. This was due to Prescott’s orders, “Don’t fire till you see the whites of their eyes”. The battle may have ended as lose for Prescott but for the troops it was a major confidence boots. Hold back the army of the King that wanted control of them (History