The Government In Aldous Huxley's Brave New World

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A political work of literature consists of relating with the affairs of the government. The book Brave New World written by Aldous Huxley is a political work because this book is about how a dystopian called the World State; where the people are made in a specific way with special conditions. This makes the peoples’ personalities and their views of life to help their world to be peaceful. There is also the factor of how there are different social and economic groups. How they are managed is through the rate of production of people and their bringing up in the world. Lastly, this book is a political work because of the laws and actions people do to keep their dystopian peaceful and in order. Huxley starts the novel with a group of young men who are touring a factory that produces people, this factory produces and raises human beings for their predestined roles in the World State. The “tour guide” of this group is the Director. …show more content…

He explains how the children are brought and why they are brought up in that way. An example of a treatment for a batch of children is called Bokanovsky Process, this process makes the majority of the population because it each batch makes 96 children by dividing the embryo. These children are raised in an environment to believe they are happy with who they are they do not want to change anything. Also their treatment deals with shock therapy to brainwash the children into thinking there is nothing else more to their lives and make them more unintelligent by depriving them of oxygen: making their brains smaller. This specific upbringing causes them to be all identical and this helps them with their planetary motto: “‘Community, Identity, Stability.’” (Huxley 7). But the other process does not split embryo causing the children being made more individual and are brought up in much nicer conditions. The way this dystopian society reproduces their

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