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Controlling methods and their effects in the Brave New World

Just like the society of “1984”, there are also a number of methods of controlling people in the very modern society of the “Brave New World”. These methods of limiting human‘s social and mental freedom are carried out by the World Controllers in order to retain and promote the society’s motto: “Community, Identity, Stability”. People can be conditioned chemically and physically prior to birth and psychologically afterwards, such as incubation, hypnopaedia, soma, contraceptive, heat and cold method, and Neo-Pavlovian process.
The very first method of controlling people, especially the low castes, since they were born is the Neo-Pavlovian process, which uses the idea of conditioned reflexes in human. The Gamma babies, for instance, who are first very interested in the fine color as well as the gay shape of the books and flowers, receive violent sound and electric shocks when they touch or even when they see books and flowers. The whole purpose of this process is to make...

Posted by: William Katz

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