Government Control In Brave New World Essay

Another form of government control over the society in Brave New World, is the exploitation done by the capitalist. For instance, class division. Society in Brave New World is divided into five groups, in which they have to wear different colors for immediate identification. Those in the upper class are the Alphas who wear grey, and the Betas use mulberry. The lower classes are the Deltas who wear khaki, Gammas use green, and the class that does the dirty work are the Epsilons who wear black. All these classes were then separated and conditioned to value consumption and the ways of their social groups. As Ahmend stated “The aim of this self-perpetuating centralized economy is to maintain stability and peace by bolstering economic growth and full employment, and constantly demonizing self-reflexivity and activities based around isolation” (par 4). This will make a stable society that is able to work together without expecting nothing in return because they have no idea how every aspect of their lives is controlled by the
Huxley may have used names of people who influenced the world during his lifetime or from a previous era because he was concern how the government controlled the people. “Some of the characters of Brave New World are also named suggestively: Mustapha Mond is a World Controller, Bernard Marx is a rebellious young radical, Helmholtz Watson is unusually gifted in every field” (Schmerl pg. 330). As for John the Savage his name probably came from John the Baptist in which both had similar beliefs, ate food produced from nature, and both wore clothes made from animal skins. Mustapha Mond’s name may have come from authority figures such as, Mustafa Kemal Ataturki and Alfred Mond. Helmholtz Watson is named after John B. Watson, a psychologist who founded the Psychological School of Behaviorism and a famous German physicist Herman Von Helmholtz, who made important contributions in the field of