Brave New World
            
             The Brave New World speaks of a world where material comfort and physical pleasure are the only concerns, where humans are not born but created and conditioned according a strict caste system developed by society. Imagine a culture where the concept of family is non-existent and the idea of aging, giving natural births and dying are their worse horror. How unrealistic one might think, yet so relevant to today's notion of utopia. Who wouldn't like to live in such a world, where happiness and comfort is only a pill away?
             While the concept may sound appealing, a world with no past is like having a world with no meaning. In the Brave New World history, religion and science are all regulated and banned. Why? Because they stir up emotions, emotions ultimately lead to unhappiness, and unhappiness leads to instability. And in this book stability is the foundation by which these people exist.
             Social control is also a huge factor in this book. Humans are created into a social class. In other words they know before they are born their role in society, or they are taught through training. Pavolian conditioning is evident in this book; Pavlov's research concluded that animals can be taught an action through negative and positive reinforcement. The same idea is depicted in the book with humans. The Delta's, for example, are taught to avoid books and roses through negative reinforcement, each time they approached either item they were shocked. Thus in this book the world controllers shaped humans the way they saw fit, the way they believed would maintain social stability.
             An interesting factor about the story is the time frame that it took place, A.F. 632. A.F. meaning After Ford, named after Henry Ford who in his time revolutionized the way cars were built with his industrial machine, the Model-T. His method of mass-production was implemented in the story where humans are built in large numbers desi...