Theme Of Hegemony In Brave New World

Absence of Formative Education and Hegemony in the novel Brave New World
Education with respect to its definition in the oxford dictionary “as the process of receiving or giving systematic instruction, especially at a school or university” has been acknowledged as an important tool capable of either propagating cultural hegemony or rebelling against it. Antonio Gramsci, the Italian philosopher, who exposed the relationship between education and cultural hegemony in his work Prison Notebooks (original Italian title: Quaderni del carcere) expounds on how the basic schooling system should be formative in nature to give even ground to the different sections of the society especially the dominated ones (166). This paper attempts to justify his theory
and Marisa Bittar attempt to explain that “the basis of a humanistic education are the real conditions of existence that individuals organize to keep themselves alive”. However, as gathered from above, through various mediums the World State has made it impossible for the people living in its world to be aware of this
Even in the alpha kids we rarely see any kind of educational guidance. This is the ultimate form of particularisation where humans are prepared for jobs and not vice versa. Only this justifies regulating the functions of fertility of women. This might be a rather twisted solution to the problem of unemployment that is plaguing many countries in present time whose only justification might be bearable when the humans are not seen as humans but rather poducts to suit demands and functions of the