In Brave new world by Aldous Huxley, the theme is they use technology to control society. In this novel, it shows how people can lose humanity if they use too much technology. The author shows us the world where everything is controlled by technology. This world looks perfect no wars, no problem, no crisis nothing. But what they don’t have is happiness, they don’t have any emotions or feelings. In their society before a baby is born everything is checked. They give them shocks and they don’t send them to school. In this society, they can’t control themselves because technology is very damaging and discomforting.
In a Brave New World, we can see how technology can affect the person ever since they are in a test tube. Technology is used so excessively that they can determine how smart they are going to be. In the book Mr. Foster says, “The lower the caste,” said Mr. Foster, “the shorter the oxygen.” The first organ affected was the brain. After that the skeleton. At seventy percent of normal oxygen, you got dwarfs. At less than seventy eyeless monsters.”. It is predetermined and there is nothing you could do to stop it. The process is all done while you are still an embryo. The height, weight, size, color, and even their intelligence is determined before they are born. Also, in the book, it says “We are not our own any more than what we possess is our own. We did not make ourselves; we cannot be supreme over ourselves. We are not our masters.” They cannot make decisions on their own because they are being controlled by the people that created them. At the same time, they cannot break the society law because if they do then there is punishment.
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This book talks about using technology while the babies are sleeping. They use a process where someone is exposed to certain information while they are sleeping, and they must listen to it for hours so that it gets stuck in their head. After they wake up, it's already in their head and they did not even have to put any effort to memorized it. The director of the London Hatchery explains the process. “Books and loud noises, flowers and electric shocks-already in the infant mind these couples were compromisingly linked; and after two hundred repetitions of the same or a similar lesson would be wedded indissolubly. What man has joined; nature is powerless to put asunder.” This process is good but they only train you with stuff that is good for society and that is good for the government they do not train you with stuff that is good for you.
Also, in Brave New World the society's soma is a big part of their life. In a utopian society, it is not acceptable for you to deal with sadness and emotions or you cannot be depressed. You cannot deal with relationships in a healthy way. People that have anger issues are not acceptable in that society. Instead of being sad or depressed just soma pill. Soma is a type of drug that makes them happy instead of being sad. In Brave New World pg. 162 says “. And if ever, by some unlucky chance, anything unpleasant should somehow happen, why, there’s always soma to give you a holiday from the facts. And there’s always soma to calm your anger, to reconcile you to your enemies, to make you patient and long-suffering. In the past, you could only accomplish these things by making a great effort, and after years of hard moral training. Now, you swallow two or three half-gram tablets, and there you are. Anybody can be virtuous now. You can carry at least half your mortality in a bottle. Christianity without years that's what soma is.” Soma helps them forget their pain and makes them feel like they are happy.
In this generation, people rely on technology and science more than they rely on themselves. But they don’t understand that these technologies are controlling them and making their life miserable. But we humans don’t understand these we think we can’t live without technologies. In Brave New World it shows that overusing technologies can damage our happiness which can lead to depression.
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