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A 5 page paper which examines how the book can be understood in terms of the “isms” it discusses – Behaviorism, Utilitarianism, Communism, Darwinism, Freudianism, Atheism, Historicism – and how it considers the notion that history is nonsense and whether or not this conclusion is right or wrong. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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signal that capitalism had peaked, and alternatives such as Communism were becoming increasingly more attractive to the masses. A budding Nazi dictator named Adolf Hitler was preparing to create
a totalitarian regime that would have worldwide consequences. Meanwhile, a British author named Aldous Huxley was observing the global transition and worried about the catastrophic future that could lie
ahead. His doomsday scenario, entitled Brave New World, was published in 1932, a complicated work that considered the technological capitalist world of the twentieth century, where the pursuit of
happiness or utilitarianism is taken to extreme, as citizens are hatched and not born, dehumanized and rigidly conditioned to become like the machines that fuel their capitalist consumer desires, with
moods regulated by a happy pill, Soma. Brave New World is best understood in terms of the isms it considers: Behaviorism, Utilitarianism, Communism, Darwinism, Freudianism, Atheism and Historicism. Behaviorism
is a science based on the concepts developed by John B. Watson, which contended that behavior is the result of external stimuli, and therefore can be learned through the process
of conditioning. Ivan Pavlov observed this process in a strictly controlled laboratory setting in which he would stimulate dogs to salivate when they heard the ringing of the bells,
for they would associate this with being fed. In Brave New World, behaviorism takes the form of "Neo-Pavlovian Conditioning" (Huxley 18). In these conditioning rooms, babies are taught
to fear roses through "electric shock" (Huxley 21) treatments. Thereafter, a baby "learns to associate his fear of strident sounds and pain with the object" (Rabkin et al. 95).
In this way, behavior can be strictly regulated by the totalitarian regime and become predictable. This is also a way of inducing stress, and when taken to extremes,
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