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Brave New World by Adlous Huxley

. It also gives the impression of conformity (two peas in a pod) and family. Because these people do not have parents or siblings, the closest equivalent to kin are your twins. The creation of a caste system, and the submission of the population to it, allows the government to create an efficient society. This caste system is kept in order by the secret of happiness and virtue-liking what youve got to do. All conditioning aims at that: making people like their inescapable social destiny,(16).Hyponopaedia is the repetition of ideas told to a group of people wile they are asleep. A certain number of times after hearing the same, catchy phrase, the idea is not only accepted by the group, but thought of as an inevitable truth. This method is also used to keep the caste system in place by making people believe that this is the way it is, that there is no other way of living, till at last the childs mind is these suggestions, and the sum of the suggestion is the childs mind-all his life long,(29). Through experiments with hypnodpaedia before the Brave New World, it was found that hypnopaedia is most effective in moral education, which ought never, in any circumstances, to be rational,(26). It is administered at night, while the children are put in a long line of cots. The image of a small army comes to mind. There are told what to wear: Delta children wear khaki(27), who to play with: I dont want to play with Delta children. And Epsilons are still worse, and why they should be happy with their caste: Alpha children...are so frightfully clever. Im really awfully glad Im a Beta, because I dont work so hard. And then we are much better than the Gammas and Deltas,(27). This way, conformity is instituted, but class divisions are created in order to create an efficient society. Hypnopaedia basically creates the possibility of turning the human race into an army of robots dedicated to efficiency. This army is similar to Henry Fords creation of the ...

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