... a dystopia. A utopia, or perfect world, gone awry is displayed in Aldous Huxley's provocative novel Brave New World. Dystopia is drawn on "political and emotional events, anchoring its vision of a nightmarish future in contemporary fears of totalitarian ideology and uncontrolled advances in technology and science" (Baker 22). It is the ... high authority, the Director is not supposed to have such emotions where he draws on memories. History in the new world is forbidden. Books were items that were greatly censored by the controllers of the world. The Director speaks of events of his past...

• Word Count: 1955
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... Class-consciousness is taught through hypnopaedia (the repletion of phrases during sleep) for all classes. The entire society is conditioned to avoid any type of intense emotional contact by taking their "pacifying" soma. (Needham, Joseph) The names of the different classes are letters in the Greek alphabet, ranging from Alpha Plus ... II. Winston gets transported to room 101, while on the other hand Bernard is transferred to an uncomfortable location. Both books forewarn of a day when mankind might fall in enslavement of its own concept of how others should act. (Bloom, Harold) The ro...

• Word Count: 2486
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

... and grow the embryos in bottles. After the babies are decanted from their bottles they are conditioned through Neo-Pavlovian conditioning and hypnopaedia. Conditioning is used to make them hate books and flowers and to teach them "ethics-. The World Controller of Western Europe, Mustapha Mond appears and gives the students a lecture about the way things used to be. In former ... makes the rules for society and decides what may be published. Mustapha has read Shakespeare and other forbidden books, making him one of the most independent thinkers within the society. HELMHOLTZ WATSON is a s...

• Word Count: 2125
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

... as if she was a piece of meat. This just was not normal because as children everyone was programed to the idea that, "everybody belongs to everybody else." Bernard is shy, emotional and will not give into soma for relief but still exibes some qualities of his hypnopaedic teaching. He just strives to do his job as it should be done and ... because he did not live in civilization. However, he was an outcast on the Indian Reservation as well as from civilization. He had the advantages of reading Shakespeare and other books and experiencing the 2 different societies. John's downfall was tha...

• Word Count: 1652
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School