Procedure of Mass Manipulation

Examples (Media, History and Religion)

References to the novel

Every kind of mass manipulation has a delivery system: one layer, one lie, leads to another and another

There are various methods to brainwash people: - excessive repetition of routine activities - deprivation - intense trauma (sexual abuse, electroshock, the torture or murder of

others) - mind control (to dominate almost every aspect of life)

increasing control over individuals + stability shaping of a person's attitudes, beliefs, and personality without

the person's knowledge or consent.

  Brainwashing, also known as thought reform or re-education, is the application of persuasive

techniques to change the beliefs or behavior of one or more people usually for political or religious purposes

We live in a world where the media has great influence on people

- advertisement (financial profit) - news (political profit) media often perverts reality we forget about who we really are by trying to

copy personalities presented in the media if one tries to be individual it often ends with

exclusion by the society

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmem9yYkyPg

History

Dictatorship of Hitler: Führer's will was highest level of reference. Everyone had to obey Nazi decision-making.

Use of terror and manipulation of public opinion to keep up stability in Third Reich

in form of Nazi propaganda such as paroles, placards, speeches

Religion

Sects: e.g. Scientology members get brainwashed persuasive techniques change beliefs or behavior of

people a new personality is formed to achieve mental sanity

The Bokanovsky Process :involves shocking an egg so that it divides to form up to

ninety-six identical embryos, which then develop into ninety-six identical human beings

CHAPTER 2 nurses present the babies with books and flowers babies suffer a mild electric shock nurses offer the flowers and books again ,the babies shrink

away and wail with terror intense trauma for their life long shaping of a person’s attitudes, beliefs and personality

without the person’s knowledge facilitates social stability : the clones it produces are

predestined to perform identical tasks at identical machines “Community, Identity, Stability”

Hypnopedia : excessive repetition, moral training

CHAPTER 2 a recorded voice whispers to each sleeping child The Director: lesson will be repeated one

hundred and twenty times, three times a week, for thirty months

“the greatest moralizing and socializing force of all time.” (p. 27, l.7)

CHAPTER 5 Lenina remembers the whispering that had

haunted all her sleeps (p.64, ll.3-7)

Conditioning: process which takes place in life to determine human’s

behaviors and attitudes and is also been cited as a way of controlling the development of attitudes and behaviors.

 LENINA CROWNE typical for BNW: her values are those of a conventional

World State citizen her condition: being an object of desire for a number of

major and minor characters primary means of relating to other people is through

sex unable to comprehend alternative systems of values  Conditioning drives the population to support the

capitalist economic system