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Essay / The role of government and technology in Aldous...
Merriam Webster's definition of satire is a type of literary work used to ridicule human vices and follies. This type of work is featured in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, when he critiques the power and control of the World State through the use of advanced technologies towards members of the World State. Throughout the novel, the World State is depicted as a totalitarian government controlling every aspect of its citizens' lives. This control is made possible thanks to all the advanced technology available within the World State. Set hundreds of years after Henry Ford, the famous automobile manufacturer, government technology is highly advanced, a madness that Huxley attempts to expose in order to prevent a technological takeover of people's lives in the real world. Grooming is a technological method used by the government to induce individuals to participate in various tasks. Entertainment is also another factor used by the World State to maintain power. Censorship is also illustrated in the novel presenting the government's ability to control what is published in the World State. From the start of the new, technology has been a central point. Brave New World is taking place for the first time at the Incubation and Conditioning Center in central London. This center is the place where all humans are produced and conditioned. Conditioning a method used to influence one's mind with a variety of different values and morals predestines these new beings into five different classes Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta and Epsilon. As Huxley writes in Brave New World, “All conditioning is aimed at making people love their inescapable social destiny. » (16) This quote means that every group is designed by the World State to have...... middle of paper ...... ey's new consumerism represents a large part of life in life members of the world. Civil servants are encouraged to buy old products and discard new ones. These people in society conform to the consumer aspects of society. The members of this society are born consumers. A popular motto is "It's better to finish than to repair" (Huxley, 52), implying that he is encouraged to buy new things rather than keep old things. This ideology implores the necessity of censorship. This is proven when John the Savage asks Mustapha Mond, one of the World Controllers, why Shakespeare is not part of the World State and Mond responds, "We don't want people to be attracted to old things." We want them to like the new ones” and having censored Shakespeare supports this cause. Works CitedHuxley, Aldous. Brave New World. New York: Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2006. Print. George Orwell's 1984