Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Built Ford Tough

     This quotation proves that society in Brave New World is just a machine, a machine designed to thoughtlessly produce whatever is needed.  The society regards characteristics that we think are inherently human as vile and disgusting.  Therefore, as Mustapha Mond refers to the time before the World State, he says, "The world was full of fathers-was therefore full of misery; full of mothers-therefore of every kind of perversionfrom sadism to chastity" (Huxley 44).  This society regards strong relationships with other people (such as a mother or father) to be dangerous, they regard it as the cause of all blight.  To remedy this "problem," they retard most of population and give them Soma to make the illusion of happiness permanent.  In this society, people are no longer human, but rather mindless robots and this suits the needs of the Alphas.  This system works for the Alphas because it creates stability in society.  The Deltas and Epsilons are unable to question why they do the same meaningless tak everyday because they do not have the ability to think, making them robots in a sense.  Furthermore, Bernard is regarded as an outcast to society because, although an Alpha, he does not follow the standard life that others do.  Huxley ctreats Bernard in this manner to augment how brainwashed the people are, he is the closest thing to being human in the futuristic society.  Also, the students on the tour magnify society's focus on efficiency.  They write down every spoken fact, without truly knowing what is going on in the baby-manufacturing plants.  Basically, the students know everything there is to know about the factory, but can not grasp what is actually happening there, but then again, no one can.  It is the focus on industrialization and efficiency that this futuristic society destroys human nature in the pursuit of technology.

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