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Similarities In Brave New World

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As the events in the book unfold, many differences can be noticed between our own society and Aldous Huxley’s masterfully crafted society from Brave New World. The world that Aldous has created is strict and inhumane compared to the world we live in today. The differences in the book come from the practices that are put in place in their utopia many of which also make them seem less human than our everyday living. Although there are many differences throughout the book and the modern world there is also many times brave new world shadows our contemporary society. In this essay I will present just how different yet similar close these two worlds are.
One Major difference and similarity between the two worlds is the use of stimulants to escape …show more content…

Chapter one of Brave New World we are informed by the director of hatcheries and conditioning that humans no longer produce live offspring. Instead, all offspring are produced to a specific design in order to fall under one of the four categories in the world state. The similarity within this deranged technique is that in today’s society we don’t always reproduce naturally. Many couples use implantation methods( gay couples, infertile couples and sometimes single individuals). In today’s world you can genetically modify your baby in order to insure they are successful. Although the way we produce has a large similarity it also has its differences. In Brave New World reproduction is not always genetically modified to benefit the embryo. Also explained in chapter one the lower casts embryos within the world such as gamma,delta, and epsilon undergo harsh treatments such as deoxygenation and alcohol in order to insure low intelligence. This is significantly different from what modifications some modern world parents have chosen to have their embryo undergo. Also genetic modifying embryos is a rare practice in the modern world and is not forced by all means. In the future I do see our society genetically modifying embryos more, but only to benefit the embryo itself. Our society is starting to want our younger generation to conform to our society's norms and to become what we force them to

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