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Government Control In Aldous Huxley's Brave New World

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Many people in society today face so many changes today laws remain unchanged: laws do not change as quickly as attitudes do. The book Brave New World, depicts a society in which experiment government control results in the failure of the society. It is a world where everything is control, managed, and synthetic. Even the people of the society are manufactured in a test tube, being themselves factory-made. The people are born and developed in the test tubes and so is their nature. Every little detail of a person's life is prearranged. These people's lives revolve around their community and security, never on the individual happiness. Similarity today, foster children overpopulate many areas of our country and they are controlled by the state. …show more content…

Foster children live in fear all the time because they don’t know if or when or they’ll see their parents or how the system will treat them. Children are known as of fear in which they are in the system for such of periods of time for parents/children to restore behaviors. The government takes a lot of control for children in care as for an example myself have was in the state system for three years. Being controlled by the state was not a happy thing experience. There was a plan for me to face the challenges in society and learn what is right and wrong. I was told not to give up on society Likewise, in Brave New World, the character Lenina remembers for the first time in which hypnopedia messages were whispered in to her ear. “Everyone works for everyone else. We can’t do without anyone. Even Epsilons are useful. We couldn’t do without Epsilons. Everyone works for everyone else. We can’t do without any one…(Huxley 80)” This quote illustrates the power of mind-numbing repetitiveness of rules and beliefs that form the basis of World State Society. The message highlights that it may be true that “everyone works for everyone else, but it is also true that certain castes have a much better time of it than others. In today’s society, we do work for a company as opposed to working for someone else. In the foster care system, children are under care of the state government. This message in relative to foster children in society that children are not alone but without their parents; they are being controlled by state system which works for the state but not the

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