Wednesday, March 12, 2014

What 4 behaviors are encouraged in the world state and is discouraged in today's American society?

OTHER BEHAVIORS THAT ARE ENCOURAGED IN BRAVE
NEW WORLD
BUT DISCOURAGED IN TODAY'S
SOCIETY:


  • Disdain
    for the other castes
    .  Repeatedly, Lenina says that she is glad that she
    is not a Gamma or a Delta.  This dislike for the lower castes, a result of the
    hypnopoedic conditioning, keeps her caste from mixing with others.      

In today's society "tolerance" is encouraged. 
Helping those less fortunate and understanding differences in mental and physical
capacities, etc. are all behaviors that are fostered in liberal
societies.


  • Happiness within one's
    own caste. 
    Alphas who control the predestination of fetuses and the
    conditioning of infants maintain that the members of every caste are happy, in their own
    ways. Yet, there is some discontent within other characters such as Bernard and
    Helmholtz.  Even the Episilons, who are of low intelligence and seemingly content,
    expressing a longing cry--"Roof!...Oh, roof!" reveals for an instant that conditioning
    cannot completely remove the human need for air, space, and
    beauty.

This contentment is counter to the
legendary "American Dream" in a society in which the child of the inner city can become
a senator.

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