Brave New World

Brave New World Reflection Essay
1. Types of conditioning were used as principles of phycology. This was used in the beginning explaining the reproductive system in brave new world. The name used was hatchery conditioning. This made the delta babies have a fear of alarm bells and electric shock. By using this it makes them not wear khaki, or to play with delta children. It also won’t waste time. The Director becomes present when he confesses to Bernard Marx that as a young man he went to a Savage Reservation, taking along a woman who disappeared there. She was pregnant with his baby, as a result of what the Utopia considers an obscene accident. The baby then grows up to be john which leads to much more in the story. By using the conditioning it spurts into making all of the rules and how they have to live and what they are ordered to do in their tasks.
2. There were many things that were disturbing one of the first being how they treated the babies. Not only was it disturbing, but it also hit home because there are babies in a world like ours that get treated in ways similar to that but some of ours being worse for them. Either way no baby should suffer, no matter if they are delta or not. Another part was the places they talk about inapproitate topics, like in a church. The way they burned bodies was also very sketchy and hit home because I can’t imagine having to know someone that had to go through that. A lot of part hit home because I can’t imagine living in a world like this. I mean our world is tough enough sometimes and living like that I feel would be awful. Some of the things they did were far –fetched which made me wonder how someone could stand being involved in a world like this. Being isolated because Bernard was in a meeting and he had a sex orgy. That is just not right and makes me wonder what these people were even for. Feeling isolated over something so stupid is not right, but then again in the world we live in people get isolated everyday just from the way people are treated.
3. I do not believe this society is good. In most ways I see it as being wrong. It could be a good society if they lived it a different way and didn’t use some of the things they do like soma for instance. I mean yes people use drugs in our society all the time but that is still not right. Something like this should not make your world turn around, because honestly it isn’t doing you any good other than the thoughts you can have from this drugs for amounts of time.
4. Soma is a drug used by everyone in the brave new world. It calms people and gets them high at the same time, but without hangovers or nasty side effects. I do not believe that this is right and there shouldn’t be something that does this, I mean if you’re going to sit there and get high you might as well live with the side effects since you made that dumb decisions. Any use of drugs in a sense like this our wrong and I mean if this is what you really want then there should not be a way to escape from the affects it causes you to have. Huxley believed in the possibility of a drug that would enable people to escape from themselves and help them achieve knowledge of God, but he made soma a parody and degradation of that possibility.
5. I really did not like this book other than learning a new sort of perspective in life. The voices in the use of science, religion, the economic structure, and the attitude toward sex, in every theme and every chapter relate to our world in a sense but then bring some new ideas in. I feel in the end that when josh says people need to have passion in their lives and I do not think that will lead him to unhappiness. The book said things that I felt strongly different about and it wasn’t fun to read other than the unique ways of conditioning. I also do not think that civilization can do without religion because they both relate to each other in a strong sense, especially for the fact that history relates to religion which can relate to phycology. Another part that I didn’t like was how many topics were discussed in this book, it was like reading about facts I didn’t understand at some points.
6. Well I feel like this jumped around a lot and I still am not exactly sure what the point of this book was. It was somewhat sketchy. I mean it had good points but living in a world like this would be devastating to a point where I can’t imagine or think about it. A lot of parts were disturbing, it was maybe a good thing to read so you know what could happen in worlds but it’s hard to imagine. If it was so confusing it may have led me to a better understandment.