indomitable spirit of man in brave new world
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A human is a human, despite any modification, transformations, or conditionings that may be conducted upon them. Even bionic men who undergo intensive conditioning will always be inevitably human. This is the case in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. Huxley's vision of utopia is encompassed by people who are conditioned to act, think, and behave a certain, uniform way. However, the strong human emotions of intimacy and bewilderment break through the walls of their conditioning. Despite society's effort to create almost robotic inhabitants, those conditions are still inescapably human.
In several circumstances, characters in the novel react to certain situations in quite humane ways, and unlike an unemotional robot may. In one situation, dozen's of the babies' conditioning has started. The shrieks and cries of the babies are different during conditioning. The author writes, " The explosions seized, the bells stopped ringingThe stifle twitching bodies relaxed, and what had become the sob and yelp of infant maniacs broadened out once more into a normal howl of ordinary terror,"(pg...