![]() ![]() ![]() World Controllers - censors scientific discoveries and exiles people for unorthodox beliefs. His insecurity about his size and status makes him discontented with the World State. He holds unorthodox beliefs about sexual relationships, sports, and community events. Bernard - An Alpha male who fails to fit in because of his inferior physical stature. His entire worldview is based on his knowledge of Shakespeare's plays. The consummate outsider, he has spent his life alienated from his village on the New Mexico Savage Reservation, and he finds himself similarly unable to fit in to World State society. John - The son of the Director and Linda, John is the only major character to have grown up outside of the World State. ** good thesis: In Brave New World the consequences of state control are a loss of dignity, morals, values, and emotions-in short, a loss of humanity. government of Brave New World retains control by making its citizens so happy and superficially fulfilled that they don't care about their personal freedom. power in Brave New World is maintained through technological interventions that start before birth and last until death, and that actually change what people want. the dangers of an all powerful state - this novel depicts a dystopia in which an all-powerful state controls the behaviors and actions of its people in order to preserve its own stability and power. While the attitudes and behaviors of World State citizens at first appear bizarre, cruel, or scandalous, many clues point to the conclusion that the World State is simply an extreme-but logically developed-version of our society's economic values, in which individual happiness is defined as the ability to satisfy needs, and success as a society is equated with economic growth and prosperity. Soma is a third example of the kind of medical, biological, and psychological technologies - The state censors and limits science, however, since it sees the fundamental basis behind science, the search for truth, as threatening to the State's control the consumer society - Brave New World is not simply a warning about what could happen to society if things go wrong, it is also a satire of the society in which Huxley existed, and which still exists today. The use of technology to control society - One illustration of this theme is the rigid control of reproduction through technological and medical intervention - Another is the creation of complicated entertainment machines that generate both harmless leisure and the high levels of consumption and production that are the basis of the World State's stability. ![]()
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