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Social Control In Brave New World

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Huxley in his The Brave New World suggests the perfect system of social control, where incubators make children and their main moral is “COMMUNITY, IDENTITY, STABILITY” (The Brave New World). The main idea of this book is almost as in socialist countries, but conflicts and fights will never appear among people. In author’s perspective, this perfect world is a paradise for humanity, but in reality, there are only everyday routine job, obligatory, need, clothes and even food in their lives. Citizens do not have incentive, because they have everything that governors allow for certain caste. When the future society in embryonic form, government determines, which particular group each member belongs to by their intellectual abilities. Those groups have their own vision of happiness and requirements according what the rulers announced in the beginning. Machineries program each person that caste kind of …show more content…

In The Brave New World, kids about an two years old face recognition of the end of their existence and it is a necessity and an unavoidability. They lose fear of death, which sounds so positive in author’s opinion, but when one is scared of death, s/he fights for life and tries to survive. Thus, in nowadays’ world, we know the value of life, which creates feeling such responsibility for each soul. For example, when one loses their grandparents, they realize that they might lose their own parents and therefore, kids treat their parents with love and worry. Beside it, family provides feelings such as being in need, while in the new world citizens feel only obligatory. In addition, citizens’ life becomes very boring, planned and no spontaneity. They have certain schedule and they have to follow it. People no longer have joy, which usually fills life with fresh content and gives us motivation to keep involving in social

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Plato’s political philosophy, The Republic, focuses on the ideal city-state, which contains a standard of justice, education, eugenics, and the idea of a cave allegory. Huxley’s novel Brave New World focuses on a dystopian state similar to Plato’s ideal city-state. Although Huxley dramatically differs from Plato’s ideal city-state with his class system, eugenics, justice, the status of men and women in high positions, and education in The Republic, the similarities in Huxley’s usage of Plato’s education, the cave allegory communal wives’ system, lead to a precise determination of Huxley’s inspiration. To begin with, Huxley has a substantial standard of hierarchy within the hierarchy of the class system within the state compared to Plato in his political philosophical

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Hirschi presumed that the answer to his question is that individuals who are highly socially integrated, or have a strong bond to society, are less willing than others to exhibit criminal, delinquent or deviant behaviours due to the risk of negative repercussions (Costello, 2010). Among the most influential of these repercussions are the informal punishments, such as the disapproval of those whose opinions are valued, rather than the formal punishments administered by the criminal justice system (Costello, 2010). It is further outlined that there are four elements to social bond. The first element of social bond is known as attachment, referring to the level of sensitivity an individual is seen to exhibit in reference to the opinion of others

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In Aldous Huxley’s, Brave New World, a dystopian government called The World State, controls every single asset of life for the citizens living there. Taking place in a futuristic London, the World State conditions its people and ultimately controls every aspect of its caste system: Alphas, Betas, Gammas, Deltas, and Epsilons. With the minority of elite Alphas being ruling at the top and the intellectually-impaired the intellectually-impaired Epsilons representing the majority of the bottom low, the World State guarantees no part of its society is exposed to freedom. Concluding to their motto, “Community, Identity, Stability”, from Identity the lower caste systems are genetically identical and made like that to create Stability, which reduces

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Although, there is still hope for the world where for someone to be born, someone else needs to die. Enough people who rediscover in themselves feelings, who decide to fight, not to die, as per governments rule, and the society may be rebuilt once again, on the basis of the family being the most important, but also the strongest unit of the society. Once Vonnegut asked “what should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.

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In the book Social Control by James Chriss, the author argues, "since the public health model views problems in society as a diseases or disease-based, the three prevention-primary, secondary, and tertiary - refer to the stage to which the disease has progressed at diagnosis or discovery. In this sense, tertiary prevention is the lowest level of prevention, in that it represents a state of affairs in which the disease has gone undiagnosed or unnoticed for quite some time" (Chriss 2013). According to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affair (VA), 476,515 military service members with primary or secondary diagnosis of PTSD received treatment at VA medical centers and clinics in 2011. Also, the secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric K. Shinseki, states

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From eight to ninety-six buds, and every bud will grow into a perfectly formed embryo, and every embryo into a full-sized adult. Making ninety-six human beings grow where only one grew before.” (Director 7). Another attempt to make a stable society is implementing a caste system where “everyone belongs to everyone”. The caste system in Brave New World worked so effectively that the different castes rarely interacted with each other, and when they did there was a palpable animosity towards the persons of another caste.

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In Huxley’s book, there is a society called the World State, that is controlled with their different types of technology for example feelies, a theatre that broadcasts smells. “‘ If young people need distraction,

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In Aldous Huxley’s dystopian novel Brave New World the society thrives upon the concept of social stability. But at what cost? The world state requires that individuality must be absent in order to achieve this stability. “Community, Identity, Stability,” the world state’s motto

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The castes are divided based on predetermined levels of intelligence and abilities rather than allowing individuals to choose

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Social stability is not worth the price that the people of the World State have to pay, but there are numerous benefits to the way they live. In the World State everyone is equal and treated the same; at the cost of being forced to live a certain way and work certain jobs, without the opportunity to change. The economy is substantial because of the consumerism in their society, everyone being encouraged, almost forced, to buy the same games and products. While every person in the society is essentially happy, apart from a few individuals; there is no progress.

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Is modern America on the brink of being under total control just like the novel Brave New World? In the novel Brave New World author Aldous Huxley depicts a somewhat utopian society but the more the reader finds out the more they realize how it’s a dystopian society. There is a lot of major themes present in the novel, but the one that surpasses them all is the thought of science as a means of control. Even though Aldous Huxley wrote this novel in the early 20th century, his idea of science as a means of control in Brave New World has striking similarities but yet some differences to today's modern day society.

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This quote explains that death is very common in this society, especially among children. Children also may be seen as easy targets to those who are unstable. Throughout this novel, death and crime are very common. Unfortunately, negativity controls the majority of lives within this

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Truth and happiness are two things people desire, and in the novel, an impressive view of this dystopia’s two issues is described. In this society, people are created through cloning. The “World State” controls every aspect of the citizens lives to eliminate unhappiness. Happiness and truth are contradictory and incompatible, and this is another theme that is discussed in “Brave New World” (Huxley 131). In the world regulated by the government, its citizens have lost their freedom; instead, they are presented with pleasure and happiness in exchange.

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