Brave New World Religion Analysis

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Lack of spirituality in Brave New World ensures pleasure seeking citizens enjoy carnal indulgences, mindful pleasures are deemed as potentially unstable ventures. Henry Ford replaces the idea of Jesus Christ and religion altogether, reducing critical thinking and potential of rebellion. This lack lack of religion is coupled with recreational sex and drugs to further magnify stability through numbness “when the individual feels, the community reels (Huxley 94).” World Controllers deliberately design this system since it systemically blurs the distinction between love and sexual urges. Organized releases of sexual urges minimizes passion which therefore stifles interpersonal growth, increasing social stability at the cost of personal identification. The absolute uniformity of sexual releases ensures everyone is satisfied physically. Conversely, in order to combat the potential of instability through feelings other than sheer pleasure, individuals indulge in Soma to forget …show more content…
Pleasure and distraction implemented by those in power to control people’s spending, political loyalties, and even their thoughts possess an immense threat. Identity manipulation through rewards is a far greater threat to society since, unlike manipulation through nefarious means, it can be implemented unthinkingly and continued endlessly, since those who are being controlled accept the apparent utopia (Leary 66). Brave New World illustrates a society that has completely lost its identity in a sea of technological innovation, sex, and conspicuous consumption. There is no way to grow intellectually outside of the society’s sandbox of what is perceived as acceptable. Fahrenheit 451 depicts a society which has not fully adopted the totalitarian control of every individual’s identity formation yet, but is in the process of doing