Brave New Word Literary Analysis
One of the main themes in Brave New word is happiness vs. truth, the government is in control, the citizens have lost their freedom, but have been given pleasure by the drug to fake happiness. Are the people really happy or is their whole life a lie. In this book the government is in control of almost everything. The government has taken control of bringing new people into the world, so that they fit their strict standards, and to produce more at a time. “One egg, one embryo, one adult, A bokanovskified egg will bud, will proliferate, will divide. 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.”
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I believe that this is crazy but partly proficient, by making people do what others won't do. But also bad because they are humans that are oblivious to everything going on around them.
Another thing that proves the government is in control is the roses and books, the director of the DHS would start this process when they were young he would say “We can electrify that whole strip of the floor.” (Page 14) then would go on to “Offer them the flowers and the books again. The nurses obeyed; but at the approach of the roses, at the mere sight of those gaily-coloured images of pussy and cock-a-doodle-doo and baa-baa black sheep, the infants shrank away in horror.” (Page 15) I know this was done to the children while they were young because it taught them from a young age that books and roses were bad and scary in their minds, even though they are no bad by any means, they would never want to go near them in the future or ever, which was the DHS’s ultimate goal. The citizens of this world have lost every bit of their freedom to the government, one of the big things is losing their joy of reading early on they are taught books and flowers are bad, and that they should be afraid of these and stay away from them at all cost.
“They’ll grow up with what the psychologists used to call an instinctive hatred of books and flowers. Reflexes unalterably conditioned. They’ll be safe from books and botany all their lives.” (Page 15)
I believe that this isn't right but the DHS and the government can't take any chances of letting their special population find out about the outside world. Almost all of the citizens have been drugged or faked into happiness. One of the examples is that the government used soma which is a drug with no side-effects that would cause bliss, oblivion, pure love, and pure utopia. This drug was used for controlling the population, and distracts all the people from what is happening which is very wrong that all the people are oblivious that they are enslaved by their own government.
In the end happiness vs. truth is all make believe, everything everybody believes that is truth is actually not the truth, and everything everybody believed was happiness is not true
happiness.
(Page 3)
I believe that this is crazy but partly proficient, by making people do what others won't do. But also bad because they are humans that are oblivious to everything going on around them.
Another thing that proves the government is in control is the roses and books, the director of the DHS would start this process when they were young he would say “We can electrify that whole strip of the floor.” (Page 14) then would go on to “Offer them the flowers and the books again. The nurses obeyed; but at the approach of the roses, at the mere sight of those gaily-coloured images of pussy and cock-a-doodle-doo and baa-baa black sheep, the infants shrank away in horror.” (Page 15) I know this was done to the children while they were young because it taught them from a young age that books and roses were bad and scary in their minds, even though they are no bad by any means, they would never want to go near them in the future or ever, which was the DHS’s ultimate goal. The citizens of this world have lost every bit of their freedom to the government, one of the big things is losing their joy of reading early on they are taught books and flowers are bad, and that they should be afraid of these and stay away from them at all cost.
“They’ll grow up with what the psychologists used to call an instinctive hatred of books and flowers. Reflexes unalterably conditioned. They’ll be safe from books and botany all their lives.” (Page 15)
I believe that this isn't right but the DHS and the government can't take any chances of letting their special population find out about the outside world. Almost all of the citizens have been drugged or faked into happiness. One of the examples is that the government used soma which is a drug with no side-effects that would cause bliss, oblivion, pure love, and pure utopia. This drug was used for controlling the population, and distracts all the people from what is happening which is very wrong that all the people are oblivious that they are enslaved by their own government.
In the end happiness vs. truth is all make believe, everything everybody believes that is truth is actually not the truth, and everything everybody believed was happiness is not true
happiness.