Hypnopedia In Brave New World

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Throughout the Brave New World Aldous Huxley goes into detail about how scientifically advanced the society is. Huxley discusses the process of cloning individuals for mass production to have a stable workforce. Also going into detail of how the society raises their children through hypnopedia and shocking them as young children to train them for their society. Their society is essentially based off technology. Throughout reading the Brave New World the relationships between today’s society and their “perfect” society prove to be very similar based on scientific advancements and technology. Therefore, we are heading towards the Brave New World with our technological advancements. In 1996 scientist at Roslin successfully cloned a sheep named Dolly. She was cloned from a mammary gland cell and an eggs cell from two sheep. Thus, being the first mammal cloned from an adult cell. Around this time other researchers had cloned mammals by splitting embryos in test tubes, implanting them in adults but none being successful (Bucklin). In Brave New World they use the Bokanovsky’s Process, using one egg and one embryo and one adult. Similar to how they …show more content…

Hypnopedia is teaching through sleep. They play recordings as their children sleep to essentially brain wash them. They do this so that the children don’t question things in their society. This puts the citizens in their places and teaches them their roles in the community (Huxley). A recent study shows how we are getting closer to the Brave New World. This study showed how people learned to connect sounds with smells while asleep. Different scents were paired with different sounds. Later in the experiment they just played the sound and the sniffing response was still the same from the odor. But when the people woke up they had no reelection of learning anything (Makin). We have not successfully proven hypnopedia to be true, but closely approaching this

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