A Brave New World: Character Analysis

As people grow in different societies around the world, surrounded by different cultures, customs, and moral values, most people have come appreciate diversity and individuality. Especially with the United State being so multicultural, there are no longer caste systems or monarchies in place to keep certain people from having access to certain rights and privileges. In the science fiction novel Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, we are introduced to a dystopian society where individuality is lost. They system put into place in the World State requires the work of all the members to function as a whole, and that the individual does not matter as long as the system survives. Sacrificing freedoms, rights, and privileges is not worth the price of
Hypnopaedia is used to teach lessons of moral consequence, and can be referred to as sleep-teaching or sleep learning, At various points of a child's conditioning, one listens to a prerecorded slogan or lesson in a specific sequence, much like a science. Bernard Marx’s career is working to instill this conditioning. “One hundred repetitions three nights a week for four years,' he says. 'Sixty-two thousand four hundred repetitions make one truth. Idiots!” are examples of how many lessons are repeated throughout a child’s sleep over the years. Hypnopaedia was discovered to be best for moral training, not intellectual because it only causes a memory of the message being broadcast in their sleep, not an understanding. This type of control is very powerful and has the capability of becoming very dangerous in the hands of the wrong person. Unlike the family unit which provides love, affection, and teachings from beyond the classroom, the hatcheries and human production are nothing more than exactly that. They provide the moral background and the societal standards before they enter the World State which prevents the individual from creating their own thoughts and