Allusion

“NEO-PAVLOVIAN CONDITIONING ROOMS, announced the notice boards.” Pg. 19

     I find some of the small details interesting regarding this “brave new world.” Huxley sets the novel far in the future. Yet, the scientific methods utilized are quite simplistic. The “NEW-PAVLOVIAN” signage refers to the Pavlovian theory of teaching the mind to associate an action with a physical impulse through repetition.  When I think of a world hundreds of years in the future, I have the hope of scientific advances which can solve any problem imaginable. As the author probably knows well, it is hard to predict the future. However, it seems the most fool-proof methods remain the most timeless. In a paradoxical way, the use of contemporary method can ground the reader to a storyline that is so futuristic.