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Brave New World Society's Moral Decline
Brave New World Society's Moral Decline
Brave New World Society's Moral Decline
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Brave New World Society's Moral Decline
apparent lack of morals and corrupt behaviour during the roaring twenties.
conformist society, a society void of the family unit, religion and human
emotions. Throughout the novel, Huxley predicts many events for the future,
now then it was in the Thirties. Critics blame "...the advent of the pill
that each time medicine reduces the risk of unwanted diseases and
China is the last remaining communist regime, it also suffers from having
one fifth of the world's population within its borders. Needless to say,
society. Aldous Huxley's fears of the future caused him to write about
and is the direct result of sexual freedom. The fear which Huxley addresses
the world order." Simply stated the growing population of earth will
consume more than it will be able to produce, unless some form of regulating
people are starving each day. The brave new world that Huxley speaks of,
they are referred to in the book. Effective birth control of such a large
population is difficult to achieve, especially in a society where people are
is facing over-population head on, with mixed results. Abortions are not
virtually impossible. Huxley realizes the problem with mass birth control,
while only thirty percent of the women remain fertile. By leaving thirty
percent of the women fertile, Huxley is able to show that even though birth
are different (the former being done while the subject is awake, and the
latter being done while the subject is asleep), both methods employed by
Huxley, act upon the subconscious to obtain the same final results. Prior
to Brave New World, Huxley researched the Russian psychologist Ivan Pavlov
and his experiments on dogs. The Pavlovian dog was subjected to highly
stressful conditions, this was done to teach the dog how to react to
certain stimuli. The end results of these tests were dogs who had been
broken, became mentally insane. Prime human examples are the veterans of
the world wars, where victims became incapacitated from intense stress
and fear (known as "shell shock"). Huxley suggests that teaching under
such stressful conditions can also be considered torture (in its most
religious propaganda depends upon the methods employed, not upon the
subject, it is not the principles that matter, but the techniques used to
instil these principles. Our modern society has come realistically close
have been renowned as being experts on brain-washing (in the form of mass
make them feel better and to create a positive feeling towards those who
supply such happiness (i.e. the ruling power). Such a drug, therefore,
the perfect escape from reality, because its use is public, not private,
thus, allowing for the happiness to be shared among friends for an all
around greater high. Soma can be considered a wonder drug, a wonder drug
that has always been searched for by medicine. After all, soma has only
positive effects (i.e. no side effects), and can be used whenever necessary.
Positive effects that may just reach beyond the person's body and onto
believe that the dose of ginseng that each worker receives daily, accounts
for their output being so much higher then their American counterparts.
"...a little white tablet that keeps production workers happy. The Japanese
all the different types of drugs now available the wonder drug-soma, will
most certainly soon arrive. Soma is used in Brave New World the way alcohol,
occurred and are becoming even worse. As well, the use of sleep-teaching/