Government Control in Brave New WorldBrave New World is a seemingly prolific novel written by Aldous Huxley. The books begin with a cloning center, where all human beings are created. Everyone is made to do a certain job. Their lives are placed in a predetermined niche in society. The amount of brain power people have to use is limited and divides people into castes. People are to the point where they are no longer mentally handicapped for their job, and therefore are being looked down upon for continuing to do what they do. The people of this world receive the information that the government wants them to think about in their sleep. They will stick to what they have been taught to think unless something unusual happens. Conditioning can only keep their minds true to the will of the government if people never encounter anything contradictory to what they are taught to believe. Soma is a drug that keeps people in a fundamental state of happiness. This is the backup people use when they are in a state of confusion. If something happens that doesn't match the beliefs taught to the people, they can simply take soma and forget about it. Conditioning, cloning, and soma are some of the greatest forms of control used by the government to keep the population under their control. Conditioning is a very complex idea that is constantly mentioned throughout the book. Conditioning is systematically used to get the population to think what the government wants to think. The government controls the person after being cloned until they reach an age where they can do the job they were created to do. The masses of people are indoctrinated, and as the use of books is limited to the upper castes of society (Alphas and Betas), there is therefore... middle of paper... controlled happiness for some, and a a place of great sadness and misery for others. This world of dystopia is not far from today's society, as it is in human nature (Kass 1). The world is moving towards the world described by Huxley in Brave New World. “'Conditioning aims to make people love their inevitable social destiny'” (Huxley 17). The government began by depriving the people of the world of their freedom. Although we are not yet at the point where even our social class and jobs are determined by the government, these elements are manifesting throughout society today. The ideas espoused by Huxley about the future of the Earth are slowly becoming a reality today. Advances in cloning, advertising packaging, and drug abuse today are some of the ways Huxley's dystopia could be playing out today (Macdonald 1-2).