Society In Aldous Huxley's Brave New World
<center><b>Discuss how the society in Brave New World works to ensure that people do not change their socio-economic class.</b></center>
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<br>Through Brave New World, Huxley depicts a new, industrialized world, which is financially stable and has prevented poverty and self-destruction. Dictatorial governments are there to ensure stability and maintain perfection of the world.
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<br>Therefore, just like under any other totalitarian government, social, mental and economic freedoms are abolished in order to retain social stability. The government eliminated these freedoms by censoring art and religion, by predestining peoples' social caste prior their birth, and by controlling each individual's life with the introduction of conditioning.
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<br>At the beginning of the novel, the …show more content…
Linda for instance is a Beta who worked in the Fertilizing Room with the embryos, but when her son asked her what chemicals were, she answered, " I don't know. You get them out of bottles it's the Chemical Store people who make them " (p. 136). The Chemical Store people are Alphas who are allowed to know the most, however, without them knowing it, their knowledge is also limited. It is the cloned Epsilons who "don't need human intelligence," to perform their tasks, (p. 30).
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<br>In order to guarantee stability within their society, the totalitarian governments must limit everyone's knowledge, because in this way, everyone will be happy with what they are doing and there will not be any fights or strikes that will influence efficiency and stability.
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<br>People in this new world live in the present with no knowledge of history. Influencing pieces of literature are eliminated by the government, and censorship is applied everywhere to attain stability. Mustapha Mond, after reviewing a book writes, "The author's conception of novel and highly ingenious, but heretical and dangerous and potentially subversive Not to be published the author will be kept under supervision,"
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<br>Through Brave New World, Huxley depicts a new, industrialized world, which is financially stable and has prevented poverty and self-destruction. Dictatorial governments are there to ensure stability and maintain perfection of the world.
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<br>Therefore, just like under any other totalitarian government, social, mental and economic freedoms are abolished in order to retain social stability. The government eliminated these freedoms by censoring art and religion, by predestining peoples' social caste prior their birth, and by controlling each individual's life with the introduction of conditioning.
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<br>At the beginning of the novel, the …show more content…
Linda for instance is a Beta who worked in the Fertilizing Room with the embryos, but when her son asked her what chemicals were, she answered, " I don't know. You get them out of bottles it's the Chemical Store people who make them " (p. 136). The Chemical Store people are Alphas who are allowed to know the most, however, without them knowing it, their knowledge is also limited. It is the cloned Epsilons who "don't need human intelligence," to perform their tasks, (p. 30).
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<br>In order to guarantee stability within their society, the totalitarian governments must limit everyone's knowledge, because in this way, everyone will be happy with what they are doing and there will not be any fights or strikes that will influence efficiency and stability.
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<br>People in this new world live in the present with no knowledge of history. Influencing pieces of literature are eliminated by the government, and censorship is applied everywhere to attain stability. Mustapha Mond, after reviewing a book writes, "The author's conception of novel and highly ingenious, but heretical and dangerous and potentially subversive Not to be published the author will be kept under supervision,"