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Censorship In Aldous Huxley's Brave New World

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In the novel “Brave New World”, the world state censors: media, literature and music and the things that fall in those categories. They do this to control their citizens’ actions and influence the way they think Just like a dystopian society would, which is brought upon with technology and by higher authorities. As technology innovation increases, the use for their people in the work force decreases leaving an overwhelming amount of depression among the civilians. Therefore, a way to continue the production of technological findings is by bringing up their citizens from day one to accept their unhappiness as normal but also providing people with somas to distract them of their unhappiness and to keep them content with their lives. They …show more content…

A positive being inappropriate things being censored a negative would be the government would be impairing us to express our ideas and crimple us from being who we really are. An example of another negative would be the United States government has passed a legislation to enable them to censor students speech in schools as well as any threats toward the government during war time. We are moving in the direction of being like the world state in the novel brave new world. When people disagree with the way their society is being ruled the government takes care of them. Edward Snowden was known as a whistle blower and a traitor because he leaked information about the spying by the NSA the point of this that he rebelled against our government and was painted an outcast and traitor just like john in the brave new world. A less dramatic type of censor is a naked lady having the black strip covering her private parts due to PG-13 movie regulations but other states do censor a lot more of material like north Korea for instance. They’re a communist nation who censors everything from movies to music to education. They feed their people lies about the world to maintain absolute

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