Persuasive Essay On Brave New World

There are a great many books devoted to changing the way that people think about the world. Between the Bible to the textbooks found in every university library, books have been written to teach us about the way the world works, and how we should see it. There have also been many books written to intellectually remove people from the real world, and temporarily place them in more endearing or more interesting worlds. Brave New World, while a science fiction at it’s core, is not a book to keep you entertained. Aldous Huxley’s thought provoking and deliberately worrying masterpiece takes on the job of the former, more difficult challenge, attempting to change ones perspective. Huxley started writing Brave New World just after some major technological
By examining these similarities, and by contrasting them with Brave New World, we will be able to see where our society is heading, and maybe realize how to keep it from happening. The two main pillars of Brave New World’s society were its government and hypnopaedia, and thus, we will begin our search there. Brave New World is not a book that very many people can relate to right away. In North America, and in many other places around the globe, people are fighting to be freed from inhumane practices, unfair jobs or wages, and even the consideration that different sexes should perform different things. These issues increase in severity and injustice when looking at third world countries and other impoverished countries. The idea that, in democratic countries, ‘the government works for the people’ is an idea that Huxley loved about his society, and would consequently love today. The government portrayed in Brave New World, while shown to be extremely important and influential in the lives of the everyday person, is shrouded in a bit of mystery. The book tells us that there are only ten World Controllers governing all the new world, and that these ten are probably the most powerful, most educated people that the current society
Hypnopaedia, simply put, is learning that occurs during sleep. No conscious desire to learn or remember is needed, and everything that is learned is safely hidden away in the child’s unconscious memory centres, where the memory will be unable to be tampered with. In the words of the Director of Hatcheries: “[Early] experiments were on the wrong track. They’d though that hypnopaedia could be made an instrument of intellectual education… If [only] they’d started on moral education… Education which ought never, in any circumstances, to be rational”. Hypnopaedia is deliberately used to manipulate the thoughts and impulses of children (obviously manipulating the older person as well) to keep them from thinking too much about the logic of the state, their current circumstances, or to even allow a person to believe in two opposite things at the same time. A prime example of this ‘doublethink’ are the hypnopaedic slogans “All men are phisochemically equal,” and “We can’t do without anyone. Even Epsilons are useful.” The first slogan, at first glance, implies that everyone has an equal position, or at least equal opportunities, in the world that now exists. This idea is emphasized when you don’t know what the word ‘phisochemically’ means, as most children wouldn’t. All that a child’s brain would be able to deduce is ‘All men are