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Brave New World Vs. Modern Soc - College Essays

Brave New World Vs. Modern Soc


Although the book Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley, was written more than
60 years ago, its subject has become more popular since most of the
technologies described in the book have, at least, partially, become a reality.
Huxley's community of Utopia is a futuristic society designed by genetic
engineering, and controlled by neural conditioning with mind-altering drugs and
a manipulative media system. Yet, despite the similarities, the reader also finds
many contrasts between the two societies.
and Perhaps the most salient contrast between Huxley’s Utopia and our
modern society, deals with the issue of procreation. The majority of babies born
in our society today, are still ...

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has pregnancy substitute (a procedure
in which Utopian woman are given all the psychological benefits of childbirth
without undergoing it) and malthusian drill (similar to today’s birth control pills).
However, modern society and Huxley’s Utopia both explore the advantages of
artificial reproduction, although Utopia has taken it to the extreme: The
Bokanovsky Process, is a method whereby a human egg’s normal development
is arrested, then buds, producing many identical eggs. “My good
boy!”...”Bokanovsky’s Process is one of the major instruments of social stability!”
(Huxley, 7). Not only did this method create millions of “robot like” citizens for
Utopia, but the leaders have supreme control over any threat of overpopulation.
Utopian predestinators decide the future function of each embryo, essentially
assigning class status. In this way, the leaders of Utopia are also able to
keep the social classes ...

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