![]() We see its effect through characters like Bernard and Lenina. When everyone is watching everyone else the need to conform becomes more important. This universal feeling is used to the society's advantage and they create a "surveillance system" based on paranoia. The characters in Brave New World are still compelled to conform if it gives them the acceptance that they long for. Although the human body is controlled through conditioning at birth and childhood, human nature in general remains relatively untouched. All of this was unheard of in the past, but scientific advancements proved to change the way babies are brought into the world, to change how society works.Īnother way the citizens of World State are controlled is psychologically through their superiors and their peers. What began with Pavlov's dogs expanded to many other scientific and personal experiments dealing with conditioning this change can be seen in human conditioning as well. Some of the methods are unproven and others don't work 100% of the time, but even merely attempting change is enough proof to connect our society to that of Brave New World. Genetic engineering is one way of conditioning, but how about a pregnant woman playing Mozart to her unborn child, a mother or father forcing their child to use their right instead of their left hand to write/eat/play baseball, or even the vaccinations we get growing up? These are all things people do to try to change their children. Scientists are even going as far as genetic engineering, where they can increase the chances of having a child with a specific eye/hair color. Although this method of creating people seems too unnatural, far-fetched and even irrelevant to today's society, it isn't.Ĭurrently we have many "unnatural" means of fertilization such as In Vitro and artificial insemination. ![]() #HOW IS BRAVE NEW WORLD SHOW NATURE VS SCIENCE SERIES#Upon being "decanted" - the equivalent of our word "born" - he goes through the appropriate series of hypnopaedic and experimental conditioning that feeds and creates his personality he never gets the chance to choose his own path he is conditioned from his birth until his death. In this bottle, they are conditioned through the appropriate dosage of oxygen, alcohol and other substances to become whatever society needs them to be. The life of a World State citizen begins in a bottle. Although Orwell's future is more lauded today, Huxley's vision in Brave New World is more relevant - almost too relevant - leaning more towards eerie than just coincidental. Connection to Orwell's 1984 can be made: surveillance cameras, Internet databases, microchip implants and other technologies can clearly be seen as a manifestation of Big Brother, and Room 101 can be tied to both torture or even more simply to interrogations. ![]() Both Huxley and Orwell present surprisingly accurate, if not, interesting predictions about the future of society. ![]()
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