Brave New World by Aldous Huxley is set far into the future. This results in a large difference between how family is viewed in the societies of 21st century America and the World State.
People in the World State are genetically engineered in factories and do not have parents (Huxley 9). The family structure is nonexistent; they do not even know what a parent is. The director of the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre asked the students on the tour if they knew what a parent was. They had a hard time when they tried to answer, and they were embarrassed when the words mother and father were mentioned. Mothers and fathers are considered an unpleasant part of history (Huxley 24). Families are a social taboo, one of the worst things
People in the World State are genetically engineered in factories and do not have parents (Huxley 9). The family structure is nonexistent; they do not even know what a parent is. The director of the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre asked the students on the tour if they knew what a parent was. They had a hard time when they tried to answer, and they were embarrassed when the words mother and father were mentioned. Mothers and fathers are considered an unpleasant part of history (Huxley 24). Families are a social taboo, one of the worst things