Brave New World Propaganda Analysis

Aldous Huxley’s novel, Brave New World, showcases a world alternate from ours, a dystopian setting. Where human morals are drastically altered, families, love, history, and art are removed by the government. They used multiple methods to control the people, but no method in the world state is more highly used and more effective than propaganda. The world state heavily implemented the use of propaganda to control, to set morals, and to condition the minds of every citizen in their world. However such uses of propaganda have already been used in our world and even at this very moment. The way the media sways us how to think or how we should feel about a given situation. Often covering the truth and hiding the facts. One of the goals in propaganda is to set the mindset of the people to align with the goal of a current power, such as a

Hard to think it’s true, but if we are subjected to it everyday, then what are we to do if one day we no longer find ourselves being controlled by propaganda. The diversity of our beliefs would entangle us, make us divided, and would ultimately end us. Aldous Huxley may also tell us that we need control at a certain degree where we don’t feel it, but rather live in it at the right amount that we do not notice it and let it control us. But for the reason that it may go out of hand, then our human instinct of freedom may contradict our own necessity of control. Brave New World claims that everyone should be happy, thus by conditioning the people to believe they are happy and maintain it at that by any means necessary even by eliminating history thus Mustapha Mond’s quote “History is bunk”. In the world of propaganda it is either you control or you are controlled, In Brave New World, even the controllers are controlled to the point that they do not stray away from the path that their predecessors gave them. It’s like part of their culture, and the way the way they were raised had that