Aldous Huxley s A Brave New World - 1649 Words

Aldous Huxley has presented us a compelling story in the 20th-century called a Brave New World. One of the most notable dystopian novels, it calls for a reader to conceptualize a world, in which society and science are synonymous with each other, history had faded far into obscurity, and Henry Ford, the creator of the assembly line, becomes a deity to many uniformed individuals. The book was about how humans are no longer created by the conventional means of mating, rather artificially, through the process of separating the ovaries and the sperm cells, and utilizing certain embryos in a biological process called Bokanovskification, the act of stimulating an embryo to undergo a mitotic process in which the end-result being that up to 96†¦show more content†¦Thus, in our contemporary world that we live in, some could surmise and contend that this book depicted society culminating to this point right now. As we progress throughout the society s continuous developments, there is reasonable evidence to conclude that Huxley s dystopian novel was his premonitions and envisioning that society would be more centric to our technologies and science, as well as other factors, whilst losing sense of morality. One aspect of the novel that he would portray over our contemporary society is the oversaturation of technology in the story. For example, this could be showcased in this quote: †¦appalled by the rushing emptiness of the night...so haggard and distracted among the hastening clouds. (Huxley, p.91). This quote reveals to the reader that being an observer of nature has some stigma connotated towards it. In essence, it is looked down upon, as the quote the succeeded it, one of characters urged to turn on the radio, as it was detracting her from the norms of her society. Another major aspect of technology, as mentioned previously, was cloning in society. There were many experiments performed on the cloned embryos as well as attempting to homologate them to the respective castes. For example, the deprivation of an embryo of a human at seventy percent you got dwarfs. (Huxley, p.14). This is just one of the multitude of experimentations that have been undergone in order to keep the caste system stable, and to possible