BRAVE NEW WORLD

Chapter Two

ANALYSIS

Chapter 2 focuses on the 2nd half of the tour where the director

shows the psychological conditioning used to control the

behaviour of the citizens.

This conditioning also drives the citizens to serve the interests of

economy and production requirements of the World State.

PAVLOV CONDITIONING

Creates a hatred for an object through the use of alarms and electric shocks.

The lower caste are conditioned to hate books to prevent from being deconditioned/wasting community time.

HYPNOPAEDIA

First used in A.F 214.

The implanting of certain ideas best suited for the World State’s ideals into a known subject while they sleep.

Useless for intellectual training but perfect for instilling moralistic ideas.

THEMES

Creation of individuals without individuality

Enslavements Vs Free will

The use if technology to control society (hypnopaedia, soma, Pavlov conditioning)

The incompatibility of Happiness and Truth

DIRECTO R OF HATCHER IES AN D CON DITIO NIN G.

"What man has joined, nature is powerless to put asunder.“

These," he said gravely, "are unpleasant facts; I know it. But then most historical facts are unpleasant.“

"Till at last the child's mind is these suggestions, and the sum of the suggestions is the child's mind. And not the child's mind only. The adult's mind too-all his life long. The mind that judges and desire and decides-made up of these suggestions. But all these suggestions are our suggestions... Suggestions from the State."

STYLE

Huxley writes with precision and this reflects in his exactitude e.g 88 cubic metres of index, 267 days for the bottle to do the entire loop.

QUOTE OF THE CHAPTER

The great moralizing and socializing force of all time.

In relation to the use of hypnopaedia on the citizens of the World State.