ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

LITERATURE QUESTIONS

DYSTOPIAN LITERATURE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
“Brave New World” uses conditioning for ____
A
dogs
B
cows
C
horses
D
children
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -In Brave New World, babies of the lower castes-Gammas, Deltas, and Epsilons-are shown books and flowers. They are allowed to touch them and look at them, and then suddenly treated with a mild electric shock. The purpose is to ensure that they have “an instinctive hatred of books and flowers.”

Detailed explanation-2: -The Director explains that Gammas, Deltas, and Epsilons were once conditioned to like flowers and nature in general. The idea was to compel them to visit the country often and “consume transport” in the process. But since nature is free, they consumed nothing other than transportation.

Detailed explanation-3: -Aldous Huxley employs psychological conditioning in Brave new world to produce a conditioned society with proper order and harmony. Human conditioning is an attempt to alter the human nature by using science and technology in order to suit the society as a whole.

Detailed explanation-4: -Behaviourism. Sleep-teaching and hypnopaedia. Chemical persuasion.

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