Blithe was the singing of the young girls over their test-tubes, the Predestinators whistled as they worked, and in the Decanting Room what glorious jokes were cracked above the empty bottles!” This description both dehumanizes the Hatchery workers (they’re more like insects, behaving instinctively, than like variable human beings) and demonstrates the chilling effectiveness of conditioning the workers aren’t robotic cogs, but joyful, singing, joking people, with at least the outward appearance of personality. Totalitarianism is exemplified by the hive-like atmosphere of the London hatchery: “Buzz, buzz! the hive was humming, busily, joyfully. But even as the Director touts “happiness,” it’s clear that such a condition is enforced people’s destinies are “inescapable,” and the State’s chief concern is to make people believe their destinies are what they really want. All conditioning aims at that: making people like their inescapable social destiny.” In keeping with its name, then, the Hatchery produces and both chemically and psychologically conditions humans to enjoy the roles predestined for them. But while other dystopian novels envision totalitarian measures being carried out through tactics like surveillance and torture, Brave New World, in contrast, argues that the most powerful totalitarian state would be one that doesn't suppress and frighten its citizens, but instead manages to convince its citizens to love their slavery.Īs the Director of London’s Central Hatchery explains to a student tour group, “That is the secret of happiness and virtue-liking what you’ve got to do. Brave New World envisions a future totalitarian society in which individual liberty has been usurped by an all-powerful state.
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