In the novel Brave New World, Huxley believes its society is perfect because of the genetic engineering of its citizens in the World State. Through genetic engineering of its citizens, the World State achieves an all happy society with predestined skills before they are even born. Although Brave New World contains drug use, sexual scenes, and is a loveless society it should remain in the high school curriculum because it teaches the reader the cost of maintaining a utopian society through the use of technology and the same reasons for drug use in today’s society compared to Huxley’s society. In Brave New World, a utopian society for everyone to be happy with their predestined job comes a great cost. Humans are genetically engineered to have
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In the predestined social caste of Brave New World, Lenina and Henry are discussing the social conditioning of the castes, Lenina says “’I suppose Epsilons don’t really mind being Epsilons,’ she said aloud. ‘Of course they don’t. How can they? They don’t know what it’s like being anything else. We’d mind, of course. But then we’ve been differently conditioned. Besides, we start with a different heredity.’ ‘I’m glad I’m not an Epsilon,’ said Lenina, with conviction. ‘And if you were an Epsilon,’ said Henry, ‘your conditioning would have made you no less thankful that you weren’t a Beta or an Alpha’” ¬ (Huxley 50). Even though Henry is conscious about the effects of the conditioning done to each level of the social caste, he is bothered by it because of his own conditioning. This is what the World State targets, even if people know about social inequality, they are conditioned to not care and believe they are fine. In the beginning the novel during the tour, the Director explains to the students “One egg, one embryo, one adult-normality. But a bokanovskified egg will bud, will proliferate, will divide. From eight to ninety-six buds, and every bud will grow into a perfectly formed embryo, and every embryo into a full-sized adult. Making ninety-six human beings grow where only one grew before. Progress” (Huxley 7). The mass cloning of humans from a single embryo results in ninety-six humans to be born the same and having the same traits while being raised in the same environment, there is no human quality to distinguish from one
In the predestined social caste of Brave New World, Lenina and Henry are discussing the social conditioning of the castes, Lenina says “’I suppose Epsilons don’t really mind being Epsilons,’ she said aloud. ‘Of course they don’t. How can they? They don’t know what it’s like being anything else. We’d mind, of course. But then we’ve been differently conditioned. Besides, we start with a different heredity.’ ‘I’m glad I’m not an Epsilon,’ said Lenina, with conviction. ‘And if you were an Epsilon,’ said Henry, ‘your conditioning would have made you no less thankful that you weren’t a Beta or an Alpha’” ¬ (Huxley 50). Even though Henry is conscious about the effects of the conditioning done to each level of the social caste, he is bothered by it because of his own conditioning. This is what the World State targets, even if people know about social inequality, they are conditioned to not care and believe they are fine. In the beginning the novel during the tour, the Director explains to the students “One egg, one embryo, one adult-normality. But a bokanovskified egg will bud, will proliferate, will divide. From eight to ninety-six buds, and every bud will grow into a perfectly formed embryo, and every embryo into a full-sized adult. Making ninety-six human beings grow where only one grew before. Progress” (Huxley 7). The mass cloning of humans from a single embryo results in ninety-six humans to be born the same and having the same traits while being raised in the same environment, there is no human quality to distinguish from one