Topic A
“The swiftest crawlers were already at their goal. Small hands reached out uncertainly, touched, grasped, unpetaling the transfigured roses, crumpling the illuminated pages of the books. The Director waited until all were happily busy. Then, “Watch carefully.” he said. And, lifting his hand, he gave the signal.
The Head Nurse who was standing by a switchboard at the other end of the room, pressed down a little lever.
There was a violent explosion. Shriller and ever shriller, a siren shrieked. Alarm bells maddeningly sounded.
The children started, screamed; their faces were distorted with terror.
[...] The nurses obeyed; but at the approach of the roses, at the mere sight of those gaily-coloured images of pussy and cock-a-doodle-doo and baa-baa black sheep, the infants shrank away in horror; the volume of their howling suddenly increased...” (21)
From this passage it shows how at an early age, babies are conditioned to like or dislike certain things resulting in no originality. With the lack of individuality, children are more likely to be one in the same causing no hassle of trying to be different and unique. Without the uniqueness of individuality, the perfect society is formed. Being the same everyone has no reason to be raised or demoted in the standards of society. It allows the society to put you in a specific class, place and leave you there without you being able to do anything about it. Once you are made and put into that standard that society has stereotype you as, you will not become anything better or worse. What it reveals though is that being conditioned to be afraid of certain things, they won’t be able to become smarter, if afraid of books, and rebel and try to cause a riot of how this perfect society isn’t all that it seems to be. Conditioning breaks the whole idea of uprising and seeing how what’s in front of you isn’t as beautiful as once thought.
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