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In The Wild Response Sample

The concept of totalitarianism is indoctrination, into all levels of society, which seek to
reshape society's values and attitudes by suppressing their emotions and natural functions. Evidently, in Brave New World and Blade Runner, such emotions and
natural functions are to powerful to deny, as such functions are an integral part of our
beings. In Aldous Huxley's, Brave New World the World State reflects a totalitarian
state as all humans are conditioned to believe in one orthodox perspective, thus by
controlling and shaping the people's perspective, their natural emotions are
oppressed and denied. Therefore, opening the doorway for disagreement to such
orthodoxy and creation of natural emotions. The Director states, " We conditioned the
masses to hate the country... to abolish the love of nature." 1 Therefore in such a
totalitarian state, like the World State, were people's emotions are controlled and
conditioned, eventually influence them to disagree with such ideology. This is
evident, as Helmhotz and Bernard refuse to conform with the orthodox views of the
World State because their natural emotions are to powerful to deny, thus such
emotions are 'innate' human qualities, as they can't be completely controlled. For
example, sexual desires have been channelled into Orgy Porgy's, thus to an extent
the state is controlling the natural emotions and sexual desires of people. Other
processes such as, Pregnancy Surrogates have eroded the natural desire to bare
children and fall pregnant, as Mr Foster states, "Fertility is merely a nuisance," 2 thus
proving that technology is beginning to erode our natural methods of fertility. Huxley
presents this idea through the use of proper nouns and Neologisms like,
"Bokanovsky Process" and "Orgy-Porgy." These words reinforce the idea that those
in control have taken over the language and imposed artificial labels on natural
functions in order to create a sense of isolation and confusion in the responder's...