It is arguable that in Huxley’s novel “Brave New World” there is no freedom in conditioning.  Conditioning is portrayed as a method of brainwashing and suppresses human individuality. In the World State, people are conditioned to be happy about their rank in society but freedom is in turn sacrificed to achieve this. Certain methods of conditioning such as hypnopaedia is a form of brainwashing as it teaches you only the information that you need to know and makes you not interested to learn more. Conditioning is also a form of social predestination and suppresses human individuality. In the DHC, the workers condition the babies right from birth to prepare them for their destined rank in society. This suppresses human individuality as instead of giving the individual a choice in their life, the choice is made for them. In many cases, conditioning suppresses freedom as the methods of conditioning used within the world state brainwashes the individual and suppresses their individuality.

Looking Into

As I look into the distance,

I couldn’t believe what I saw

It’s not a daily sight, nor is it a pleasant surprise

It’s not something that I think will happen, but it has.

It involves someone I know

And someone I don’t

And you would never think that this person you knew, or at least used to know,

would commit such lustful sin.

It’s not easily bearable to mine eyes,

But the truth is held evident

I take back my comments

 the thoughts we were going to share

The books we are going to read

And the flower I was going to give

I have changed my mind on her, and always will, from now on.

This poem reflects a painting of the doctor by Vincent Van Gogh, in this poem, the speaker is the doctor himself, who is sitting at a one end of a café alone and saw his wife flirting with another man at another table far away. He doesn’t quite believe what he saw but tries to convince himself throughout the poem.  The audience of the poem is generally directed to those who know the doctor well and understand what he is going through.

 poem was peer edited by Ali S.