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A Book Report On Aldous Huxley's "A Brave New World" - Term Papers

A Book Report On Aldous Huxley's "A Brave New World"

Huxley's point of view in Brave New World is third person,
omniscient (all-knowing). The narrator is not one of the characters and
therefore has the ability to tell us what is going on within any of the
characters' minds. This ability is particularly useful in showing us a
cross section of this strange society of the future. We can be with the
Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning in the Central London Conditioning
and Hatchery Centre, with Lenina Crowne at the Westminster Abbey Cabaret,
with Bernard Marx at the Fordson Community Singery. An extreem example of
the technique would be in Chapter Three, when we hear a babble of
unidentified voices--Lenina's, Fanny Crowne's, Mustapha ...

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the dirty jobs that
nobody else wants to do. The lower classes are multiplied by a budding
process that can create up to 96 identical clones and produce over 15,000
brothers and sisters from a single ovary.
All the babies are conditioned, physically and chemically in the
bottle, and psychologically after birth, to make them happy citizens of the
society with both a liking and an aptitude for the work they will do. One
psychological conditioning technique is hypnopaedia, or teaching people
while they sleep--not teaching facts or analysis, but planting suggestions
that will make people behave in certain ways. The Director also makes plain
that sex is a source of happiness, a game people play with anyone who
pleases them.
The Controller, one of the ten men who run the world, explains some
of the more profound principles on which the Utopia is based. One is that
"history is bunk"; the society limits people's knowledge of the past so
they will not be able to compare the present with ...

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