brave new world

brave new world

maggie li katrina zhou lisa dong

-conditioning

P18

“Books and loud noises, flowers and electric shocks-already in the infant mind.”

In order to make people hate a thing, they electrify them [shriller and ever shriller]. They use immoral way to make those kids instinctively hate something which is called “reflexes unalterably conditioned.” it is also a democracy of showing director’s power.

Page 13

“All conditioning aims at that: making people like their unescapablesocial destiny.”

Page 19

“we condition the masses to hate the country, but simultaneously we condition them to love all country sports.”

Both sentences spoken by the Director shows that the powerful of conditioning . The Director has the ability to make people like or dislike a thing. In the other words, everything they does to manufacture the world is through conditioning.

The powerful of conditioning and those people’s unescapable destiny.

P19“Gammas, Deltas, even Epsilons had been conditioned to like flowers.”

Irony that which used to be conditioned to like, is later conditioned to hate.

“Abolish the love of nature, at any rate among the lower classes.”---class system

P79 “Some men are almost rhinoceroses; they don’t respond properly to conditioning.”

This sentence spoken by Henry shows the idea that conditioning are also make negative side.

P66

“Everyone works for everyone else. ”

It is one of the conditioning that being soaked in people’s mind. While even they rememorizes the first time of conditioning , it is a shock of fear and surprise.

P66

“If you were an Epsilon, your conditioning would have made you no less thankful that you weren’t a Beta or an Alpha.”

The situation is that they know themselves are being differently conditioned. Hence, they have different heredity.

P16 Neo-Pavlovian Conditioning Rooms

P17 "Now turn them so that they can see the flowers and books." Babies go to the pictures-

"The Head Nurse who was standing by a switchboard... pressed down a little lever."

"There was a violent explosion... sounded."

"The children started... terror."

"Now we proceed... with a mild electric shock."

"There was something... stiffened."

"Offer them the flowers and the books again."

"At the approach of the roses... howling suddenly increased."

"Bookds and loud noises... completely linked."

"They'll be sage from books and botary all their lives."

How does Pavlovian conditioning work?

1) any object is connected to a pleasurable or painful experience.

2) The repetition is called reinforcement(making the 'feeling' stronger)

3)This connects the "object" with the pleasure or pain so that the person either hates or loves these objects.

4)Pain comes regection pleasure causes acceptance and desire.

5)The connection is made very strong by having the pleasurable or painful experience many times.

The society in Brave new world does very gruesome things to condition their infants to not only accept their status in society, but love their status also. Conditioning is a learning process in which an organism's behavior becomes dependent on the occurrence of a stimulus. In our world today, people always use conditioning to complete their wishes. Boss condition employees with fear of losing a job that is a stimulate for employees to perform job better. Babies condition mothers to feed immediately with crying loudly. Similarly there are many occurrences of stimulus that governs our everyday behavior, habits and preferences. And our mind gets conditioned through repetition of such acts or activities. This is the reason why breaking a habit is not an easy task for most of us.

http://ezinearticles.com/?How-Mind-Conditioning-Happens&id=5118423

http://video.about.com/psychology/What-Is-Operant-Conditioning-.htm

In ancient world slaves are conditioned by monarchs with cruel method. Monarchs or Lords hardly torture their slaves when they do something wrong in order to stimulate their slaves do better job and take orders from them forever. William Faulkner once said that “Given a choice between grief and nothing, I’d choose grief!” Well, I guess that really captures the human emotional factor we also have to consider. He may even have mentioned pain, suffering, death and disaster to complement grief and most people would still buy that over nothing.

http://elkarneclausen.wordpress.com/2011/03/23/forever-slave-in-conditioned-existence/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMJJpbRx_O8&feature=related