...Brave New World: The use of mass media and propaganda The society is determined by the nature of people within it and how they relate. The influence of external factors like religion, politics, and technology contribute a lot to the structure and development of the society. In the novel Brave New World, the concept of social media and propaganda are explicitly expressed through various accounts. The author has used the influence of social media to bring a deeper understanding of how various characters, decisions, and acts are influenced. Social media in the novel act as a channel through which propaganda is manifested. Social power and influence is an attribute of propaganda that is directed through the masses via social media. Hence, in the context of this essay will address how mass media and propaganda are used in novel Brave New World. The human society has been dictated by their role in social media and how they influence decision and choices in life. Aldous Huxley in his novel describes a community that has been infiltrated by untruth and misguided by some beliefs and information from a selected group of people. The basic set up in the society is controlled by those who feel superior and elite compared to the others. Propaganda is spread of wrong information that causes a severe impact to the community or a group of people. In the novel Brave New World, the conflict between individual and the society being different and unique is an act of propaganda. The use of Soma...
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...“Freedom or Perfection?” Conditioning and technology have become exceedingly common in many first world countries. Most individuals do not realize the effect conditioning and technology has on them and how it shapes them and their future. The world of technology has drastically grown over the past century, allowing mankind to accomplish feats deemed impossible in decades past. In Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, conditioning and technology play an enormous role in society. In the World State, the state of affairs is preserved through conditioning and technology, causing a lack of humanity to be evident. Technology controls many aspects of one’s life in Brave New World, resulting in limitations of freedoms. Throughout the novel, Huxley displays many situations where the implementation of technology has been used to create stability. The reader is introduced to “Bokanovsky’s Process” at the start of the novel; the process essentially allows 96 babies to be born from one embryo. This procedure produces “[m]illions of identical twins. The principle of mass production at last applied to biology,” (Huxley 5). Mass production is an invention which allows consumer goods to be created faster and sold cheaper. Therefore, consumer goods are easily replaceable, implying that children and the population as a whole is easily replaceable, thus diminishing the value of life. The significance and uniqueness of any one individual is abolished, causing everyone to be viewed as equal before the...
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...Futuristic Paradise? Or Innovative Hell? Novels written about the future have a utopian or dystopian feel about them, depending on the reader’s perspective. A technologically advanced society has both its pros and cons. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley shows how a futuristic society has both positives and negatives. The novel has a dystopian undertone to its “Civilized” society, where the citizens become ignorant followers of the stable State. In Brave New World, the Bokanovsky Process takes away the citizens chance to look differently from everyone else. “The Bokanovsky Process of producing thousands of genetically identical people provides each caste with its own identity.” (McGrath). The society is built for uniform men and women...
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...Maren J Lee English 27/10/2014 – 11/11/2014 Brain Washing – Brave New World Brain Washing is an interesting concept. Manipulation can be use to inspire or as a powerful weapon. The United States of America uses soft power and propaganda commercials to promote patriatism. One nation for one purpose. On the other hand, Hitler brain washed the citizens of Germany, making them believe that he was creating a better society. In this situation, brain washing becomes a weapon. Alclous Huxley brings brain washing to the extreme in his novel Brave New World. Citizens of this world are taought to think less. Ignorance is Bless. Huxley Creates a wrold with a few powerful people have complete control of the whole nation. In this essay, I want to discuess the brain washing technique they use, and how they maintain the power. Huxley’s Brave New Wrold setting is at year 2050. Children are made in a science lab with no parents. Ever since the children are born, the government natural condition them: “Family is a horrible idea.” “Everyone belongs to everyone else.” “Ending is better than mending…” (p.43) Many different unique concepts are constantly reminded in this soceity. Saying any idea millions time and listen it millions times would make it true. The governemnt of Brave New World reinforces each concepts into a human’s mind from the moment they are born. As the children in brave new world grow up, each individual is assigned to one specific job that he/ she is design for...
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...Brave New World by Aldous Huxley Brave New world is a dystopian novel written in England in 1931 and published in 1932 during the Modernism literary period. The setting of the novel is in London and New Mexico ruled under an imagined future one-world government called the World State. The World State of Brave New World is a totalitarian dystopia that uses technology to, deceive its citizens into loving their slavery. Dystopia is a society, in this case the World State, that is an imaginary society organized to create ideal conditions for human beings, eliminating hatred, pain, neglect, and all of the other evils of the world. Huxley wrote Brave New World as a dystopian novel due to the rise of technology and science in the 1930s, focusing on the totalitarianism evils (meaning centralized or dictatorial). Huxley imagined a future of a totalitarian state where there is no such thing as freedom of anything and happiness was forced through manipulation, called conditioning in the novel. When Huxley wrote Brave New World, it was just a little over a decade since World War I. During this time, totalitarian states were popping up in the Soviet Union and Fascist parties were gaining power in Europe. Also, there were advancements in science, technology, and the relationship between the two as the world became more industrialized. Aldous Huxley was born in Surrey, England, on July 26, 1894, to a well-known family of scientists, writers, and teachers deeply rooted in England’s literary...
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...the time. It was controversial through some literature authors who were against such text. Brave New World is set in future-London 632 A.F. (After Henry Ford). The society is set as utopian times. Humans are produced in assembly lines and are manipulated right away after being born. They develop a hatred for books and flowers or anything that is ordinary in our world that brings...
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...Dystopia, We by Evgeniy Zamiatin and Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, these influences are crucial for the development, the understanding in the context of the period, and the impact on the literary field. In this essay we will try to analyze the social, historical and cultural context of both novels,...
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...EATING SUGAR Meetings between cultures can be a demanding task for both. Tourists and natives. A culture can be described as learned human behavior patterns and differ between cultures. Those who have the resources (often money) can experience new cultures, but for many it can be a difficult step exploring the unknown. Furthermore communication can play an important role in recognizing and accepting new cultures, as well as socializing. Panic can develop against the unknown and this can form pre-judges. This is what we experience in the short story “Eating Sugar”. This an essay on the short story “Eating Sugar” written by Catherine Merriman and published in 2001. In the story we experience a meeting between two different cultures, who are forced to communicate without speaking the same language. We see how this impression develops over time. In the story, which takes place in Thailand in April, we meet a British family consisting of Alex, the father, Eileen, the mother and their twenty-one-year old daughter Suzanne. Alex and Eileen are on vacation in Thailand to visit Suzanne, who is working as an english teacher in a society. Through an analysis of the symbols in the story, this essay will discuss the theme prejudice. The story is told by an omniscient 3rd person narrator, and as the story is being told from the tourist point of view, we experience the native Thai’s as the tourist do. The narrator only knows the father’s thoughts. The author has chosen to sprinkle...
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...Scientism and Technocracy in Brave New World Introduction Brave New World is well recognized as a dystopian novel, in which Aldous Huxley satirically criticized scientism and technocracy. In this new world, science and technology was paramount. It dominated all aspects of human life. Humans were mass produced in laboratory and factories; human moral value were moulded by sleeping teaching; human emotions were controlled by soma. The overuse of science and technology reduced humans to one-dimensional man without individuality and the ability of critical thinking. Human beings were used as tools for political and economic purposes. The thesis is to study scientism and technocracy, the "improper application of science to human life", from two aspects: the interference with human physical life and the elimination of human spiritual life. Scientism and Technocracy Scientism, according to Zhu Wang, is "an excessive belief in the power of scientific knowledge and technology to solve all human problems including spiritual crisis" (194). It is "the authority of natural sciences, dominating all aspects of human life and rejecting religion, philosophy, art, and literature" (194). In Brave New World, Huxley depicted a dystopian society to condemn the excessive use of science and technology which eliminated human individuality and civilization. He pointed out in his Complete Essays Vol.6 that science was "the reduction of multiplicity to unity….the theoretical reduction...
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...Two of those photographs will be discussed in this essay. The first photograph is of an 8 year old boy accepting the flag at his father’s funeral. According to ABC News his father was just finishing up his second tour of duty overseas. He was due to come home to his family soon when he was tragically killed. The second photo is a mother/ military member who is returning to her daughter. Both photos show extreme sadness on both the child’s and the parent’s part. This is our country’s reality. So many men and women are sent into other countries to protect and serve and they are leaving behind the ones whom they care the most about. How can the children and parents muddle through this tragedy? Especially when it is constantly in a parents mind that they may not ever see their children again. Children don’t always understand the importance and the reasons that their parents aren’t with them. Both photographers have used different ways to draw us into their photographs. By using focus, angle, and lighting to tug at our heartstrings, we realize the reality of life as a soldier, as the spouse of a soldier and as the child of a soldier. The focus in the first photograph is on the center of the young boy. The audience doesn’t see anything but this brave...
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...free time, I enjoy carrying on an age old tradition passed down from father to father. A tradition rich with history practiced in any place, any weather, and any time. This custom has ended wars, brought down entire economies, and has made even the best tempered men fight a fellow or two. I am proud to say that I too carry on this most admirable pursuit of happiness; I am talking of course about drinking. I would like to share the gripping personal story about my passage to adult hood; we will then go over mistakes made and learn the proper rules and regulations to having a “good time” as they call it. My first experience leaving the safety of my own home with alcohol was a brave endeavor; if not a little misguided. I had just turned the ripe age of 20; my life was full of promise and good intentions, but this morning was different than all the others. I awoke with a start and hopped out of bed in an uncustomary fashion; being more used to laboring out of my sheets for the better part of the morning. I startled even my self with this uncommon vigor; until I remembered that this was the day that I would fool the world with the help of my extra scruffy visage and enter a 21 plus gathering in San Francisco. As soon as the clock hit 7pm I snatched my phone and bathed my living room in the sweet rhythmic tune of rushed texting. Seemingly with out cause; a friend materialized by the front door. I rushed to the door and let him in; explaining the fantastic plot I had been planning...
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...studied literature, physical science, medicine, politics, and natural philosophy. In 1656 he continued for his Master of Arts degree. In 1665 at Oxford, Locke encountered Lord Ashley, a notable statesman looking for medical treatment. After a friendship formed, Ashley invited Locke to join him in London as his personal physician. Locke agreed and left for London in 1667, where he lived for the next eight years. This was the beginning of Locke’s deep political interests, which was no surprised considering that Ashley was one of England’s most skilled politicians. While in London, Locke took a job in Government researching the relationship between trade possibilities and colonization. He worked closely with early settlers who left for the New World, helping with the drafting of the Fundamental Constitution. The principal writings by John Locke that are influential to the...
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...Philo. 5 Finally Essay Questions 1. Ethical relativism is the theory that there are no universally valid moral principles, that all moral principles are valid relative to culture or individual choice. Thus it means what's right for you may not be what's right for me. So most probably, ethical relativist would have tons of different opinions among the 19 people and me. Some might think to protect themselves are the truths, thus they would kill Freddy. Some might regard that we are friends, so we could not betrayed each other, thus, as a result, people would not kill Freddy, and instead, all of the persons in the caves would be drowned. In Philosophy, egoism is the theory that one's self is, or should be, the motivation and the goal of one's own action. It advises us to love ourselves first even if it means hurting others. So in this case, if there are ethical egoists in the group, for these people, whom love themselves greater than anyone else, would blow Freddy out decidedly. Because if and only if they kill Freddy, thus it makes them sure for surviving from the rising tide. The definition of utilitarianism is that a doctrine that the useful is the good and that the determining consideration of right conduct should be the usefulness of its consequences. Also we can understand this meaning as a theory that the aim of action should be the largest possible balance of pleasure over pain or the greatest happiness of the greatest number. So in this case, utilitarian would mostly...
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...Outside Reading Analysis Essay Sometimes in life, it just feels natural and easier to follow the crowd and be a part of a bandwagon. It is in the nature of a human being to not want to be singled out or alone in society. In the book, Drawing the Ocean, by Carolyn Maccullough, Sadie Caldwell, who is naturally a shy person, is experiencing this feeling of solitude that she slowly overcomes as time passes with a few bumps in the road. It is never easy to have a brand new start in life, especially when in the high school years, and be successful at it. Sadie must overcome the overwhelming beginnings of her journey, pass over the hurdles of peer pressure and influences, and then finally land in the place where she truly belongs. “Do you like it here?” asks Ollie. Ollie was once Sadie’s twin brother who died at the age of 12, but she can still physically visualize and hear him as if he were still alive; unable to get rid of his presence, he acts as her self-conscious and guardian angel. She slowly ponders on this question representing the start of her new life. Moving from California to Connecticut with only her mom and dad, she has no one to socialize with or even call her friend, however she makes it her resolution to rid herself...
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...RECRUITMENT TO POSTS IN GRADES 17 & 16 UNDER THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, 1971 ENGLISH ESSAY Maximum marks: 100 C SS .C O M .P Note: Write an essay in ENGLISH on ONE of the following: 1. Man as part of a design infinitely vaster than himself. 2. Knowledge demands love as its complement. 3. The amusement mania. 4. The art of feature films made in Pakistan. 5. Art and Religion. 6. Education of freedom. 7. Brain-washing. 8. The lessons of the past. 9. Requisites for social progress in Pakistan. 10. How words change our lives? 11. Man is condemned to be free. 12. Leaders and followers. K Time allowed: 3 hours ENGLISH ESSAY EXAMINATION 1972 Maximum marks: 100 C SS .C O M .P Write an essay in English on One of the following: 1. Relevance of Islam to Science. 2. The sanctity of law. 3. Competitive results of planned economy? 4. The sick soul. 5. The strategy of political warfare. 6. “If’ in History. 7. Psychology and its social meaning. 8. Reverence for life. 9. International morality. 10. The divided self and the process of its unification. 11. Statesmen and Diplomatists. 12. The foundations of the feature. K Time allowed: 3 hours ENGLISH ESSAY EXAMINATION 1973 Time allowed: 3 hours Maximum marks: 100 1. (a) Make an outline for writing an Essay in English on One of the following subjects: (b) Write the Essay on the subject you have selected more or less on the basis of the Outline you have...
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