9). Bernard himself says that, "I am I, but wish I wasn’t" (Huxley, 57). This self-hatred indicates that even in the most ordered, stable society injustice still occur in the form of discrimination. The right to choose no longer exists in an autocratic society where social freedom is eliminated by the distinct categorical division of citizens."History is more or less bunk" (Rae, 53), said Henry Ford. This ideology is taken to extreme measures in the World State and many totalitarian nations where censorship of art and religion completely conceals the past and eliminates the freedoms of thought and speech. People live in the present with no knowledge of history, and those who explore certain new, prohibited ideas are censored."Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known", said Oscar Wilde. Individualism, however, is not permitted in the World State where "everyone works for everyone else" (Huxley, 81). Many pieces of literature are eliminated, and censorship is applied everywhere to attain stability. Without the books to give the people ideas, and with the conditioning of the mind, no one would attempt a revolution or an uprising. No one in the World State would recognize the title Othello or the name William Shakespeare, no one but the people who make the rules – the World Controllers. In history, many novels, books and films have been banned because of their content and their presentation of ideas. The state did not give excuses for their actions, and the citizens simply accepted. In the World State, not only are the old books gone, the new ones are also censored. The World Controller residing over Western Europe writes, after reviewing a book, "…The author’s…conception of purpose is novel and highly ingenious, but heretical and…dangerous and potentially subversive…Not to be published …The author will be kept under supervision" (Huxley, 160). In Quebec, during t...
