Government Control In Brave New World Essay
Another form of government control over the society in Brave New World, is the exploitation done by the capitalist. For instance, class division. Society in Brave New World is divided into five groups, in which they have to wear different colors for immediate identification. Those in the upper class are the Alphas who wear grey, and the Betas use mulberry. The lower classes are the Deltas who wear khaki, Gammas use green, and the class that does the dirty work are the Epsilons who wear black. All these classes were then separated and conditioned to value consumption and the ways of their social groups. As Ahmend stated “The aim of this self-perpetuating centralized economy is to maintain stability and peace by bolstering economic growth and full employment, and constantly demonizing self-reflexivity and activities based around isolation” (par 4). This will make a stable society that is able to work together without expecting nothing in return because they have no idea how every aspect of their lives is controlled by the
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government. In our society people are also categorized in different social classes. The upper class are those who are filthy rich, the middle class are those considered “white collar workers” that have money but are not filthy rich. The working class these are skilled and non-skilled workers who work for their money and then there are the lower class those considered poor, uneducated and with no money. The difference between Brave New World and our society is that we are not happy, whether you are rich or poor we expect something in return. The working class is the class that experiences exploitation by the capitalist the most because most of them have jobs they do not like but need them to support their households. The capitalist will continue to get rich while the working class continues to live on a check by check basis. This idea of exploitation probably came to Huxley from when the moving assembly lines were introduced, the working class were the ones working them. They were paid good wages which was not enough to make them rich but enough to support their families. In order for the government to continue to exploit and control society in Brave New World they must create thousands of cloned humans using a process called “The Bokanovsky Process”. It is a process that divides an egg into ninety six identical embryos to make ninety six identical beings making the population grow drastically. “Ninety-six identical twins working ninety-six identical machines!” (Huxley pg. 7). In our society it is not safe to clone humans but this is not to say it cannot happen one day. A procedure that our society uses to create a life out of the human body is called In Vitro Fertilization. It is a similar procedure used in Brave New World, in which eggs are retrieved from a woman, then they are fertilized in a laboratory but the only difference is the eggs will then be transferred into the mother’s uterus. If it is a successful implantation the eggs will then form into a baby and grow inside the mother’s womb until it is born. Unlike Brave New World the eggs will not split into ninety six humans, but there is a chance they will split changing the names of these multiple births. Just like the names used in Brave New World.
Huxley may have used names of people who influenced the world during his lifetime or from a previous era because he was concern how the government controlled the people. “Some of the characters of Brave New World are also named suggestively: Mustapha Mond is a World Controller, Bernard Marx is a rebellious young radical, Helmholtz Watson is unusually gifted in every field” (Schmerl pg. 330). As for John the Savage his name probably came from John the Baptist in which both had similar beliefs, ate food produced from nature, and both wore clothes made from animal skins. Mustapha Mond’s name may have come from authority figures such as, Mustafa Kemal Ataturki and Alfred Mond. Helmholtz Watson is named after John B. Watson, a psychologist who founded the Psychological School of Behaviorism and a famous German physicist Herman Von Helmholtz, who made important contributions in the field of
science.
government. In our society people are also categorized in different social classes. The upper class are those who are filthy rich, the middle class are those considered “white collar workers” that have money but are not filthy rich. The working class these are skilled and non-skilled workers who work for their money and then there are the lower class those considered poor, uneducated and with no money. The difference between Brave New World and our society is that we are not happy, whether you are rich or poor we expect something in return. The working class is the class that experiences exploitation by the capitalist the most because most of them have jobs they do not like but need them to support their households. The capitalist will continue to get rich while the working class continues to live on a check by check basis. This idea of exploitation probably came to Huxley from when the moving assembly lines were introduced, the working class were the ones working them. They were paid good wages which was not enough to make them rich but enough to support their families. In order for the government to continue to exploit and control society in Brave New World they must create thousands of cloned humans using a process called “The Bokanovsky Process”. It is a process that divides an egg into ninety six identical embryos to make ninety six identical beings making the population grow drastically. “Ninety-six identical twins working ninety-six identical machines!” (Huxley pg. 7). In our society it is not safe to clone humans but this is not to say it cannot happen one day. A procedure that our society uses to create a life out of the human body is called In Vitro Fertilization. It is a similar procedure used in Brave New World, in which eggs are retrieved from a woman, then they are fertilized in a laboratory but the only difference is the eggs will then be transferred into the mother’s uterus. If it is a successful implantation the eggs will then form into a baby and grow inside the mother’s womb until it is born. Unlike Brave New World the eggs will not split into ninety six humans, but there is a chance they will split changing the names of these multiple births. Just like the names used in Brave New World.
Huxley may have used names of people who influenced the world during his lifetime or from a previous era because he was concern how the government controlled the people. “Some of the characters of Brave New World are also named suggestively: Mustapha Mond is a World Controller, Bernard Marx is a rebellious young radical, Helmholtz Watson is unusually gifted in every field” (Schmerl pg. 330). As for John the Savage his name probably came from John the Baptist in which both had similar beliefs, ate food produced from nature, and both wore clothes made from animal skins. Mustapha Mond’s name may have come from authority figures such as, Mustafa Kemal Ataturki and Alfred Mond. Helmholtz Watson is named after John B. Watson, a psychologist who founded the Psychological School of Behaviorism and a famous German physicist Herman Von Helmholtz, who made important contributions in the field of
science.