Power Of The Few Over The Many :: essays research papers

The Eleventh Commandment portrayed the state church as beingthe supreme dictator. It is through the eleventh politythat the church held its power and restrainer over the pack.Without the church and its leaders to guide the masses, theirsociety would have collapsed. However, compared to Brave NewWorld, the whole society is conditioned to " practice for everyoneelse"(Huxley 67) by the abuse and daily consumption of soma. Without the drug called soma, their society would have alsocollapsed due to withdrawal symptoms. The underlying realitybetween the two societies is that the masses are manipulated,controlled, and brainwashed, without resistance, to obey andfollow their leaders through various methods of enforcement.The Brave New World is controlled by a select few who callthemselves occupier Controllers and Directors. These elite feware able to control the production and selection process ofsocieties masses. Mustapha Mond, Resident Controller for WesternEurope, and the Dire ctor of Hatcheries and Conditioning, overseethe conditioning of embryos. Their powers and control over theseparticular jurisdictions gave them great power, and with that theability to manipulate others. "You ass... said theDirector,... Hasnt it occurred to you that an Epsilon embryomust have an Epsilon environment as well as an Epsilonheredity"(Huxley 23). Through a hierarchy of Alaphas and Betasdown to the lower cast Epsilon, everyone was suited for theirjob. The Director however, through his position of authority,was able to "... condition the masses to hate thecountry,"(Huxley 30). In doing so, the Director succeeds increating an obedient society, which obeys and bows to every whimof his commands. The Resident Controller and Director were twoauthoritative figures that were able to control whomever andwhatever each person worked at, even in advance they were conceived. Each cast had pre-conceived morals preached to them throughconditioning, and to this end effecti vely brainwashed to thepoint of utter obedience. The outcome of this brainwashing byconditioning sets forth a society that exists in two tiers, theguardians and the domesticated animals. who? why?->BNWwho? why?->11th CThe church and its head archbishops are able to control andmanipulate the masses in North America by preaching the eleventh education through strict laws and enforcement practices. Theeleventh commandment ordained that every man and women must befruitful and multiply. Because of this commandment and of themilitant ruling religionist enforcement, North America alone hadfour billion people, and yet the church continued to preach theeleventh commandment and its practices. The competition betweencontinents was the driving force behind the eleventh commandment. If it was not the competitiveness between ruling church states,