Government Control in a Brave New World A Brave New World is a seemingly prolific novel written by Aldous Huxley. The books begin with a cloning center, where all people are created. All people are made to do a certain job. Their life is inserted into a predetermined space in society. The amount of brain power people have to use is limited and divides people into castes. People are at the point where they are not mentally challenged for their jobs, and therefore despise them to continue doing what they do. The people of this world are given 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 the mind true to the government's will if people never encounter anything contradictory to what they are taught to believe. Soma is a drug that keeps people in a basic state of happiness. It is the support that people use when they are in a state of confusion. If something happens and it doesn't go along with the beliefs the population is taught, then they can just take the soma and forget about it. Conditioning, cloning, and soma are some of the greatest forms of control that the government uses to keep the population under its rule. Conditioning is a very complex idea that is mentioned constantly throughout the book. Conditioning is constantly used to get the population to think what the government wants to think. The government controls the person after they are cloned until they reach an age where they can do the job they were created to do. The masses of people are indoctrinated, and since the use of books is limited to the highest castes of society (Alpha and Beta), so there is... middle of the paper... controlled happiness for some, and a place of great pain and misery for others. This dystopian world is not far from today's society, because it is in human nature (Kass 1). The world is evolving into the world depicted by Huxley in Brave New World. “'Conditioning aims to make people love their inevitable social destiny'” (Huxley 17). The government initially started by taking away the freedom of people around the world. While we are not at a point where our social class and jobs are also determined by government, these elements are evident throughout society today. The ideas that Huxley adopted about the future of the Earth are slowly becoming reality today. Advances in cloning, conditioning in advertising, and today's drug abuse are some of the ways Huxley's dystopia could occur today (Macdonald 1-2). Works cited