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Power Of The Few Over The Many

The Eleventh Commandment portrayed the state church as being
the supreme dictator. It is through the eleventh commandment
that the church held it's power and control over the masses.
Without the church and it's leaders to guide the masses, their
society would have collapsed. However, compared to Brave New
World, the whole society is conditioned to "work for everyone
else"(Huxley 67) by the abuse and daily consumption of soma.
Without the drug called soma, their society would have also
collapsed due to withdrawal symptoms. The underlying reality
between the two societies is that the masses are manipulated,
controlled, and brainwashed, without resistance, to obey and
follow their ...

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manipulate others. "'You ass'... said the
Director,... 'Hasn't it occurred to you that an Epsilon embryo
must have an Epsilon environment as well as an Epsilon
heredity'"(Huxley 23). Through a hierarchy of Alaphas and Betas
down to the lower cast Epsilon, everyone was suited for their
job. The Director however, through his position of authority,
was able to "... condition the masses to hate the
country,"(Huxley 30). In doing so, the Director succeeds in
creating an obedient society, which obeys and bows to every whim
of his commands. The Resident Controller and Director were two
authoritative figures that were able to control whomever and
whatever each person worked at, even before they were conceived.
Each cast had pre-conceived morals preached to them through
conditioning, and to this end effectively brainwashed to the
point of utter obedience. The outcome of this brainwashing by
conditioning sets forth a society that exists in two tiers, the
guardians and the ...

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Added: 10/8/2005 04:32:26 PM
Category: World History
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