Aldous Huxley’s text, Brave New World, will leave you questioning your perspective on life and it’s choices. Within the novel, curious readers can see that government control over all in an attempt to create a utopia, can sometimes have a counter effect, creating a dystopia. Wielding it’s tool of conformity, The World State has forced its ideology into the minds of its people at a young age, in hopes of avoiding rebellion. In many ways this is how our society functions in the real world. The genre of Huxley's text may be fiction, but the society fabricated in Brave New World may not be so fictional after all.
Period 5 Quarter 1 Final Essay by Anish Kashyap Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut Jr., The Monsters are due on Maple street by Rod Serling, and Pros and Cons of Genetic Engineering in Humans by Matt Bird all show that a utopian society is destined to fail. The ways of life in each society show that utopian societies are destined to fail. In Harrison Bergeron, the society is destined to fail because everyone is the same and they have strict laws. In The Monsters are due on Maple Street, the neighborhood is destined to fail because people are prejudiced against others and people make illogical conclusions.
Human eugenics has become a popular technology in the biology world of reproduction. The idea of conserving the superior traits and deleting the tainted traits has become an exciting movement where even novels like Brave New World has predicted us with the dramatic future of eugenics. Although the idea of deleting tainted traits such as disease seem ideal, the fear of creating “perfect” traits will create dominance from the upper class and will strip individualism. John H. Evan talks about the pros and cons of human eugenics in his article. Inspired by the novel Brave New World, Evans first introduces the idea of class separation between the selected designed babies.
In today’s world, you can have your baby with blue eyes, perfect height, and how you want your baby to look when is old. Now we can even make a baby be born smart because now scientists are more specialized in genetic and how the genes work. For example, if women can’t have babies she can rent a belly from another woman so she can have the baby but the baby is going to have the DNA of the women who can’t have babies, not of the other woman. Is pretty impressive how today scientist can modify genetically the genes of babies before they are even born. Now in today’s world is almost possible to create the perfect baby if we want.
Throughout the ages of mankind, asking questions about their future and the world is normal. Whether it 's what causes a person to have certain traits, or why a banana has Potassium in it. When scientists discovered hereditary and genes, it led to the discovery of altering DNA, and how could change our society. Genetic Engineering is modifying the genetic material in foods and organisms. Genetic Engineering is beneficial and should be encouraged in all countries.
Aldous Huxley, author of A Brave New World, is a very talented author in the way he portrays the controlling nature shown by rulers in modern day society and their tendencies to dismiss anything they don't approve of and or disagree with in his dystopian novel. In the book Brave New World, there are numerous examples of limitations and lack of freedoms for the inhabitants of this “new world”. Firstly, and most obvious, is the system of classes established by the unknown leader of this society. Furthermore, the embryos that are predestined to be put into these classes are mentally and physically limited through “training” (otherwise known as electrocution and praise tactics) from birth until a determined time.
The author of the work “Genetic Engineering” is Francis Fukuyama. The work details some of the advances that genetic engineering has made, along with the advances genetic engineering could make. Fukuyama in the writing “Genetic Engineering” states the advances genetic engineering has made, the several different methods of genetic engineering, the obstacles that obstruct the progress of genetic engineering, and considerations to make about genetic engineering. Finally, Fukuyama concludes with two major points about genetic engineering.
In the Brave New World, a book written by Aldous Huxley,, he writes about a utopian future where humans are genetically created and pharmaceutically anthesized. Huxley introduces three ideals which become the world's state motto. The motto that is driven into their dystopian society is “Community, Identity and Stability.” These are qualities that are set to structure the Brave New World. Yet, happen to contradict themselves throughout the story.
The utopian society in the Brave New World can be compared and contrasted between our contemporary society using individualism, community and the human experience. The fictional novel by Aldous Huxley, published in 1932, is about a utopian society where people focus stability and community over individuality and freedom, but an outsider is introduced to intervene with the operation of the utopian state. In the contemporary world, people need to show individuality in their communities in order to survive, and to be human, one must show emotion, which is the opposite in the Brave New World. Individualism is very important in the contemporary world, but in the utopian state, individuals are conditioned to be the same as everyone else. They do not know how to be themselves.
Science has enabled us to thrive in a world where change is a must if an organism wishes to live. It has allowed for us to bend and twist the world at our feet, even having enough strength to repel the touch of death. Genetic engineering is the next scientific advancement that will stand close in the near future. It has the capability of modifying the food production process, elimination of diseases and disorders, and the guarantation of the best traits in an organism.
The scientific advancements in Brave New World are what make the march towards a utopia possible. The world state represents Berdiaeff's idea of an achievable utopia. In Brave New World, the world state develops science and technology to cultivate embryos in artificial environments, thus removing emotional connections that come with pregnancy. The world state eliminates meaningful relationships as they could result in unexpected behaviour. An artificial environment also allows the world state to adjust physical and mental aspects of each embryo, creating ‘classes’.
Huxley demonstrates this by having babies born in hatcheries to have their social class determined for them and even given or denied things that are needed for a healthy baby to survive. The government in A Brave New World realizes that stability is made by having people think the same. When they create the babies they take and egg and a sperm and make a kid, but they do another step called Bokanovsky process. The shock they eggs multiple times till the eggs split. They do this as many times as they can so they create 8 or 9 twins, they lose they babies individuality and it is inhumane to the kids by creating them in a lab and not having them born naturally.
Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World exemplifies the creation of a condescending totalitarianistic society through the genesis of a political body that dictates all aspects of life, delineated through hypnopædic training and emotional
Aldous Huxley, a dystopian prophetic vision Aldous Huxley explores in some of his novels the dystopian narrative, and even though Brave New World (1932) is his most acclaimed work, he wrote others like Island (1962), situated in an utopian society , and Ape and Essence (1948), a similar dystopia to the one we find in Brave New World (1932). Although Brave New World (1932) vividly depicts a world in which humans have become less-than humans by means of biotechnological and socioscientific techniques, Island (1962) sketches an idyllic community in which scientific knowledge is carefully employed for the enhancement of the quality of human lives . Brave New World (1932) is set in a future world in the year 632 After Ford and people are no longer born or raised the way we know: they are conceived by cloning and then develop in bottles in a place called the Hatchery. Here they are conditioned; we could see this conditioning as a process of brainwashing designed to prepare every individual for the tasks he or she is meant to fulfill in this society, also called the World State.
Is Genetic engineering Safe? Genetic engineering is the modification of an organism’s genetic composition by artificial means, often involving the transfer of specific traits, or genes, from one organism into a plant or animal of an entirely different species. Human beings ought to consider the pros and cons of genetic engineering before using it. It is a contentious topic because people have different views of weather genetic engineering is safe or not.
