How Different Are We from a Dystopian Civilization?

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ENG 2D1 Danyal Ahmed May 24, 2013 How Different Are We From An Dystopian Civilization? How long before the present society is a mirror of the dystopian society shown in Brave New World? Or has today’s society already become a piece of its fragment. In Brave New World, Aldous Huxley, presents a frightening dystopian future. Although written 80 years ago, the world today is a close representation of the society in Brave New World. Both worlds are similar in terms that; people’s beliefs and likes are reformed through conditioning, people in both societies value and partake in materialistic pleasure and there are different economic classes which cause severe economic and social gaps. In the first place, the beliefs and likes of people from both societies are greatly impacted through conditioning. In the dystopian society of Brave New World, the method of hypnopaedia is used to condition people at an early age by repeating the same message over and over again in the person’s sleep until these messages are a person’s thoughts. For example, a simple phrase: “And Epsilons are still worse…they wear black, which is such a beastly colour” (Huxley, 22), is repeated over and over into a person’s head while they sleep. And when they awake their beliefs have been reformed into despising two things; Epsilons and the colour black. Which in previous, they would have no contemn towards. Similarly, in modern society people are conditioned by their environment the moment they’re born. For example, the moment a child is born the parents begin to push the child towards their beliefs and morals. They constantly tell the child what’s right, what’s wrong, what to do and what not to do. Furthermore, the society itself then intervenes with the child’s conditioning, mainly through education. The child is forced to go to school to become educated. But instead of being taught how to
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