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“The controllers in BNW consider intelligence the most desirable quality in a human being.” In the novel, “Brave New World”, intelligence is not considered as anything special. In fact, having intelligence is considered appalling in a way. Intelligence in the dystopia is basically limited to the things that do not challenge them or make them think about other things. Different techniques of brainwashing was used to make the society believe that intelligence was nothing but …

…them anyway. Intelligence is the key to being an individual. But sleep teaching and mind control are used to avoid it in this “new utopia”. Intelligence is desired among all people basically because they are only exposed to the small, simple, yet pleasurable things. Having intelligence gives you the power to express your thoughts, think of things out of the ordinary, solve things that you never dreamed of solving, and more importantly, being an individual.