The mood during this situation was a little contradictory. Through John and his words, the mood seemed somber and terrible. His mother was dying after all. He was horrified and just wanted to save her. He did not want his mother to die, which was understandable. On the other hand, the nurse inside the ward was more concerned about the society as a whole. She was worried about the children not being properly death conditioned. She could have cared less if Linda died or not. Her mood was worry, but not for the same reason as John. Surrounding Linda, the nurse set a mood of acceptance and inevitability. She did not even try to help her in her last few moments. Through these two characters, the author is able to convey a differing mood on the issue of death. John felt that all that mattered at the time was his mother while the only thing the nurse was concerned about was the death conditioning the children had already been through.

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The term social criticism locates the reasons for malicious conditions of the society in flawed social structures. People adhering to a social critics aim at practical solutions by specific measures, often consensual reform but sometimes also by powerful revolution.

• 1 European roots
• 2 Protest experience with political theories
• 3 Academic forms
• 4 In literature and music
• 5 See also

Religious repression was common in Europe and reason for physical or mental exodus within Europe. From such experience resulted one of the first documents of a social critics: the Testament of Jean Meslier.

Repression experienced by a minority (e.g., Homosexuality) often leads to protest. Without sufficient resolution of the dispute, a social criticism can be formulated, often covered by political groups (political monopoly). For protesting peoplewithin a progressive social movement it is often frustrating to experience failure of the movement to its own progressive agenda.

The positivism dispute between critical rationalism (e.g. Karl Popper) and the Frankfurt School is the academic form of the same discrepancy. This dispute deals with the question whether the research in the social sciences should be "neutral" or consciously adopt the partisan view.

Academic works of social criticism can belong to social philosophy, political economy, sociology, social psychology,psychoanalysisbut also cultural studies and other disciplines or reject academic forms of discourse.

Social criticism can also be expressed in a fictional form, e.g., in a revolutionary novel like The Iron Heel by Jack Londonor in dystopian novels like Aldous Huxley's Brave New World (1932) or George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) orRay Bradburys Fahrenheit 451 (1953), children's books or films.

Fictional literature can have a significant social impact. "For example, the 1852 novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, by Harriet Beecher Stowe furthered the antislavery movement in the United States, and the 1885 novel Ramona, by Helen Hunt Jackson, brought about changes in laws regarding Native Americans. Similarly, Upton Sinclair's 1906 novel The Junglehelped create new laws related to public health and food handling, and Arthur Morrison's 1896 novel A Child of the Jagocaused England to change its housing laws. George Orwell and Charles Dickens wrote Animal Farm and A Tale of Two Cities, respectively, to express their disillusionment with society and human nature. Animal Farm, written in 1944, is a book that tells the animal fable of a farm in which the farm animals revolt against their human masters. It is an example of social criticism in literature in which Orwell satirized the events in Russia after the Bolshevik Revolution. He anthropomorphises the animals, and alludes each one to a counterpart in Russian history. A Tale of Two Cities also typifies this kind of literature. Besides the central theme of love, is another prevalent theme, that of a revolution gone bad. He shows us that, unfortunately, human nature causes us to be vengeful and, for some of us, overly ambitious. Both these books are similar in that both describe how, even with the best of intentions, our ambitions get the best of us. Both authors also demonstrate that violence and the Machiavellian attitude of "the ends justifying the means" are deplorable. They also express their authors' disenchantment with the state of evolution of human nature.

They seem to be saying, that even when we begin with honourable intentions, there will be some of us who will let their base instincts take control. Orwell, in Animal Farm portrays this nature by parodying events in real history. Given the right conditions, those events could happen anywhere - a leader becoming overly ambitious, to the point of harming his people for more power. In A Tale of Two Cities, Dickens examines the inner soul, and shares with us how people are driven to the valley of human emotions, where desperation and anger reign, and what could happen afterwards if we let these emotions build up inside. Every human being is capable of becoming a ruthless, opportunistic being like Napoleon or Madame Defarge, if placed in the right place, at the right time.

Musical expressions of social criticism are very frequent in punk and rap music, examples being "Pretty Vacant" by Sex Pistols and "Brenda's Got a Baby" by 2Pac, respectively. Heavy metal bands such as Metallica and Megadeth also use social criticism extensively, particularly in their earlier works.

Ways in which children are conditioned in Brave New World.

The society in Brave New World they condition their infants to not only accept their status in society, but love their status also. After the egg has become an embryo, the Bokanovsky's Process of separating the embryo into eight to ninety-six of the exact same embryo. The process affects the mental ability of the adult when the embryo develops. The Bokanovsky's Process of division was only used for Gammas, Epsilons, and Deltas as the Alphas and Betas mental ability had to be high.

In the stage where, the embryos become foetuses and the foetuses become babies, many things are used to affect the growing babies. Those who become Gammas or Deltas or Epsilons, are given less oxygen when they grow, making them have low mental abilities. Also those who are meant to work in a specific area with a certain job are exposed to that area more often so they become suited to it and do not want to work anywhere also. As they would be happy working in that job. Also the growing babies are given immunities while growing. So they do not contract diseases while growing up.

Finally when the babies are born and growing up, more conditioning is applied. They are conditioned to like or dislikes things through pain, an example from is that, the people would shock the babies with painful electric shocks, when they are around flowers, so they will hate nature. This has to be applied more times than once before the babies will truly hate nature. The last step of conditioning is when the children are asleep. They condition the children with hypnopedia. Quotes that show this are, "Alpha children wear grey. They work much harder than we do, because they're so frightfully clever. I'm really awfully glad I'm a Beta, because I don't work so hard. And then we are much better than the Gammas and Deltas. Gammas are stupid. They all wear green, and Delta children wear khaki. Oh no, I don't want to play with Delta children. And Epsilons are still worse. They're too stupid to be able …" "Till at last the child's mind is these suggestions, and the sum of the suggestions is the child's mind. And not the child's mind only. The adult's mind too-all his life long. The mind that judges and desires and decides-made up of these suggestions. But all these suggestions are our suggestions! "