Blog post 3 (semester 2) Research Paper Final Topic Selection & Final Graphic Organizers

*My specific research topic questions can be taken from the first version, posted above. I already created my own questions*

More Recent Research Proposal

I will be writing about the illusion of freedom in the Brave New World, and how their world leaders, or controllers, make that happen. By using psychological conditioning from a very young age, they’re taught that everyone belongs to everyone else, and that if they follow the rules of the world state, they will be happy. They either don’t seem to acknowledge their lack of freedom, or they simply don’t care that they don’t have any. I also want to cover why they don’t care, and why those few that do (Hemholtz, Bernard at the beginning of the book, for example), do what they’re told anyway. A source of mine from the American Psychological Association expresses “If a restriction is definite, people find a way to live with it….But if there is a chance [they] can beat it, than it makes sense… to motivate [them] to fight it” (Laurens). This also stems majorly off of the scene John made when flipping the soma tables, where he says “I’ll make you free, whether you want to or not” (213).
My end goal is to relate this back to how America is today, and to examine how free we actually are--Is our society really as great as we think it is, or do we just think that because it's what we've been told all along? While we obviously don’t condition people in their sleep, I want to see what we do as a country along a much less extreme line, for example, the kinds of information taught at a young age both in and out of school impacts their view of our American society, and how it relates to Brave New World.




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