Alphas, Chronics, Deltas, Acutes. Huxley, just as Kesey, starts his novel by illustrating just how "perfectly organized" the Directors operate society. Huxley flashes from the very beginning the machinations of society. At first with apparent glamour but it doesn't take the reader long to remember that Chief Bromden was right to fake deaf and dumb.
There is no need to read further than the first couple of lines to begin falling in to the suicidal trance of the utopia. Phrases such as: "World State´s Motto" begin to render flashbacks that became abundant while reading Kesey´s novel but this time "machination" is not the appropriate word to apply; homogenization is. What seems to be happening in Brave New World in contrast to OFCN is that a system has not been imposed physically but genetically. Fields trips or tours guided by Ms. Ratched were nonexistent, her ward was not depicted as the "giant leap of mankind" nor was a sense of pride dispersed throughout the civilian population on the system enabled in the ward. Huxley proposes a new; much more complex problem with the system. Students aspire to and conformation is not even an existent term because society has been genetically modified to be "mechanized", the "Chiefs" in this new world have not become deaf and dumb but have been made to be dead and dumb. The Chief had something to aspire to, he had dreams and memories he could dwell on, that sense of begin able to fight the system by thinking or even wanting to purse happiness is scientifically impossible to achieve in Brave New World.
The ideology of the Director therefore of society seems to be expressed in one single sentence: "Not philosophers but fret sawyers and stamp collector compose the backbone of society."(Four) It is neither Stalin nor Hitler; it is Ford´s assembly line.
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