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Brave New World

Brave New World. Chapter Two. Analysis . Chapter 2 focuses on the 2 nd half of the tour where the director shows the psychological conditioning used to control the behaviour of the citizens.

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Brave New World

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  1. Brave New World Chapter Two

  2. Analysis • Chapter 2 focuses on the 2nd half of the tour where the director shows the psychological conditioning used to control the behaviour of the citizens. • This conditioning also drives the citizens to serve the interests of economy and production requirements of the World State.

  3. Pavlov Conditioning • Creates a hatred for an object through the use of alarms and electric shocks. • The lower caste are conditioned to hate books to prevent from being deconditioned/wasting community time.

  4. Hypnopaedia • First used in A.F 214. • The implanting of certain ideas best suited for the World State’s ideals into a known subject while they sleep. • Useless for intellectual training but perfect for instilling moralistic ideas.

  5. Themes • Creation of individuals without individuality • Enslavements Vs Free will • The use if technology to control society (hypnopaedia, soma, Pavlov conditioning) • The incompatibility of Happiness and Truth

  6. Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning. • "What man has joined, nature is powerless to put asunder.“ • These," he said gravely, "are unpleasant facts; I know it. But then most historical facts are unpleasant.“ • "Till at last the child's mind is these suggestions, and the sum of the suggestions is the child's mind. And not the child's mind only. The adult's mind too-all his life long. The mind that judges and desire and decides-made up of these suggestions. But all these suggestions are our suggestions... Suggestions from the State."

  7. Style • Huxley writes with precision and this reflects in his exactitude e.g 88 cubic metres of index, 267 days for the bottle to do the entire loop.

  8. Quote of the Chapter • The great moralizing and socializing force of all time. In relation to the use of hypnopaedia on the citizens of the World State.

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