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This page talks of the relationship between the novel Brave New World and Wuthering Heights
Passage Pages 20-21 "Watch carefully, he said. And, lifting his hand, he gave the signal.
The Head Nurse, who was standing by a switchboard at the other end
of the room, pressed down a little lever.
There was a violent explosion. Shriller and ever shriller, a siren
shrieked. Alarm bells maddeningly sounded.
The children started, screamed; their faces were distorted with
terror.
"And now, the Director shouted(for the noise was deafening), now
we proceed to rub in the lesson with a mild electric shock.
He waved his hand again, and the Head Nurse pressed a second
lever. The screaming of the babie suddenly changed its tone. There was
something desperate, almost insane, about the sharp spasmodic yelps to
which they now gave utterance. Their little bodies twitched and
stiffened; their limbs moved jerkily as if to the tug of unseen wires.
We can electrify that whole strip of floor, bawled the Director in
explanation. But that's enough, he signalled tot he nurse.
The explosions ceased, the bells stopped ringing, the shriek of
the siren dies down from tone to tone into silence. The stiffly
twitching bodies relaxed, and what had become the sobs ad yelps of the
infant maniacs broadened out once more into a normal howl of ordinary
terror.
Offer them the flowers and the books again.
The nurses obeyed; but at the approach of the roses, at the mere
sight of those gaily-coloured images of pussy and cook-a-doodle-doo and
baa-baa black sheep, the infants shrank away in horror; the volume of
their howling suddenly increased.
Observe, said the Director triumphantly, observe.
Books and loud noises, flowers and electric shocks- already in the
infant minds these couples were compromisingly linked; and after two
hundred repititions of the same or a similar lesson would be wedded
indissolubly. What man has joined, nature is powerless to put asunder.
They'll grow up with what psychologists used to call an
'instinctive' hatred of books and flowers. Reflexes unalterably
conditioned. They'll be safe from books and botany all their lives. The
Director turned to his nurses. Take them away again.
Connection Heathcliff was mentally conditioned from his first days at Wuthering Heights because he was a gypsy and people were frightened of him due to his dark skin. Because of the treatment he received from Hindley, Joseph, and even the Linton's, Heathcliff was conditioned to be cruel and to act as a brute. Heathcliff's character appears sullen, impatient, vengeful, and cruel. He spends most of his life in spiritual torment. Society in Brave New World was "mentally conditioned" at a young age to act using certain manners and to do specific things in life. The people spent their whole lives doing what they has been brainwashed into doing.
Both Heathcliff and John suffered intense emotional pain from failed atttempts at love Hareton began as a somewhat normal child under the care of Nelly. After Heathcliff took over the responsibility of raising him, he was intentionally corrupted to fulfill Heathcliff's vengeance. John's mother, was once a normal conditioned woman until she was stranded at the reservation with her unborn child. After the savages raised her, she dramatically changed into what was considered a corrupted and unacceptable member of society. In Brave New World, the fords Decieve society for its own good, as Edgar does not tell Cathy about Heathcliff for her own benefit.
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