Wednesday, 25 April 2012


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.