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warns

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of the dangers of the state having control y using new and powerful technology

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example of this theme

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the control of reproduction through technological and medical intervention, including the removal of ovaries, the Bokanovsky process and hypnopaedic conditioning

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entertainment machines

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creation of complicated entertainment machines that generate both harmless leisure and the high levels of consumption and production that are the basis of the World State’s stability

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soma

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an example of medical, biological and psychological technologies that BNW criticizes most sharply

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progress and science

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The State talks about progress and science, what it really means is the bettering of technology instead of increasing scientific exploration and experimentation

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the state uses science

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as a means to build technology that can create a seamless, happy, superficial world through things such as the “feelies”

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censoring

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the state censors and limits science as it sees science and the search for truth, as threatening to the State’s control

science is knowledge - technology is what you can do with that knowledge

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world stability

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“the world’s stable now. People are happy”

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soma quote

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“if anything should go wrong, there’s soma”

“christianity without tears - that’s what soma is”

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population

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set at 2000 million, with 10,000 surnames

everything’s organised through biological engineering

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the first chapter

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expresses concerns about state interference in reproduction, which reflects the anxieties of the late 19th century society

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influenced by ideas

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of the time, of the science of reproduction to create the perfect offspring

social darwinism

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freuds theory applied to BNW

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The government conditions people to have powerful super-egos that actually encourage, rather than inhibit, gratification of id impulses. As a result the ego is diminished and people do not have to cope with conflicting emotions.

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he is criticising the

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propaganda, censorship and other forms of control left after WW1

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its architecture

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is futuristic - pink glowing glass buildings, viscose and acetate are materials of preference and taps flow with perfume

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winston and Bernard

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at the “religious” ceremony Bernard is unable to feel the ecstasy that the others do and fakes it just as Winston cannot get into the spirit of the “Two Minutes Hate”

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set in

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AF632, somewhere in the 26th century, and postulates advanced technology extrapolated from the contemporary

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like THT

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this book supposes a catastrophic war has caused society to re-mould

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usually in science fiction

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the human spirit is triumphant or science is able to save the day - Huxley offers us no such optimism in this novel

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link to Swift’s ‘Gulliver’s Travels’

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it presents an ‘ideal’ society, like Lilliput, and then proceeds to show what is wrong with it

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satirises science

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even though scientific advancements have been made, the world’s far from being a better place - it has encouraged the dehumanisation of men and women

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Mond points out that science and art are disruptive

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if we consider Darwin’s theory of evolution and natural selection, it is clear that science can indeed in disruptive