Monday, October 18, 2010

Brave New World

In Brave New World human experiences are manipulated to produce family, monogamy, impulse, feeling, and desire. The quote used on the ap lit home page is saying something along the lines of humans are produced to enjoy what they must do. In Brave New World humans are no longer made the old fashion way, but are made by man and machines. While as an embryo they are then conditioned in certain circumstances in which they will be living in when they mature. The D.H.C. trained little children to scream when ever they saw or came close to a rose or other types of plants. They did this to make the children not want to be around plants. But why would they not want them around plants? Because they dont want the children who will grow up into workers, to waste their time outside slacking off from their work. They are making them more efficent workers by making them not want to stop and take a break outside. "What with mothers and lovers, what with the prohibitions they were not conditioned to obey..." (41). This quote is coming from the Mustapha mundo, hes telling all the learing students on how the world was before they worshiped Ford. The people had never been conditioned to like or enjoy the work that they would grow up and have to do. No one was ever even guranteed a job or forced into a job which they had no say in because they were given it when they were just in the beginning of creation.

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