The “extra power” that Bernard is referring to is individuality. As much as the world controllers try to rob people of their individuality, this can’t be taken away easily. Another example comes from the caste system in Brave New World that the Alphas conditioned to identify with only one specific job. Each caste is identified with a specific color that they are assigned to wear. “Gammas are stupid.
Bruce Dawe describes the negative aspaects of consumerism in the poems: Enter Without So Much As Knocking; Televistas and Americanized. Dawe expresses Enter Without So Much As Knocking in a negative feature. The title of the poem suggests how consumerism has made itself welcome in society. The poem begins with the birth of a child whose first thing he hears is a consumer show, with host Bobby Dazzler. In this scenario Dawe bases consumerism as the most important thing in one’s life in a humourous way by exaggerating that a child hears a game show before his parent’s voices.
With the Brave New World society, they used soma as a replacement for both depression and religion. Using soma gave the taker instant gratification and kept everyone in check with the society. No one would question what was happening, nor would they question why they were taking soma - stability at its highest level. In Lord of the Flies, a leader could act as the soma in order to maintain solidity. Unfortunately, there were two leaders and this created indecision among the boys on the island.
One of these secrets is that although every citizen believes himself to be happy, he has been genetically engineered to think so and is a government ploy to maintain “social stability”. Although the world is now dominated by this system, there are many “savage centres” which still exist and are home to the “old, imperfect” humans. These “savages” are natural, unconditioned people who still give birth. When John, a savage born naturally of a mother from the World State, is brought to the outer world by Bernard, a man who feels out of place in his society, the dystopian nature of
The aberrant perspective of Gilgamesh which I am presenting may seem divergent and atypical when analysed in accordance to our modern values and principles, but to Gilgamesh this would be quite natural. The values and ethics that contemporary readers hold shape their perspective of characters as they respond in various ways to the adventures that said characters undertake. A perfect example of this is when the narrator speaks of the state of Uruk and says “No son is left with his father, for Gilgamesh takes them all”. From this, the contemporary audience frames Gilgamesh as an immoral tyrant, as their value of free will is being challenged. However, Gilgamesh’s intentions were in the interest of the people, as he moulded the sons into warriors to protect the city.
10th Grade Common Writing Assessment #1 In “Harrison Bergeron,” Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. uses irony to illustrate how enforcing absolute equality would require a ridiculously totalitarian society. This story begins with introducing George, who is forced to wear handicaps the government from thinking or having physical abilities above average. His wife Hazel is not handicapped and to the reader seems unintelligent. Their son Harrison has been taken away by the government and on his own revolts. Vonnegut uses the characterization of Harrison, Hazel, and George to show how conformity stifles individualism and is detrimental to society.
Much like John B. Watson, the man known for the Little Albert Experiment, Helmholtz is curious, but much too bored with his lifestyle. Bernard Marx, a reference to the philosopher Karl Marx, is determined to make his society a better place to live. Bernard does not approve of is loveless, careless, and scientific world. Karl Marx was also determined to make his society better. He warned others of what our world would come to be, “a classless society” (http://www.nationmaste.com).
In Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, the humans in the World State are conditioned to accept their fate and to love who they are and where they are. Most people are “born’ through the process of mass production. Leaders are not mass produced and therefore are able to do some independent thinking. Followers and performers are mass produced. They have thousands of identical brothers and sisters.
In Brave New World this believes doesn’t even appear for one moment. The society life in a regime controlled by Mustapha Mond, the most powerful men in the World State. The liberty doesn’t mean anything to him. Actually, even before a person is born, they lose their liberties because they are conditioned to love and like what Mustapha and the government want them to love and like; people are created chemically, they are artificial. After reading this, a Christian will be horrified because they believe that even before the baby is born, since the moment when an egg is fertilized, that future individual is consider as a person with sentiments and rights.
When I first started reading A Brave New World, I was thinking of how terrible this society is. They produce children that are pre specified to do certain work. There are no families. And nobody seems to have any control over their lives. But the thing that was most interesting is that most of the people in this society were incredibly happy, fit and some even smart.