Brave New World Vs Gattaca Comparative Essay

Brave New World and Gattaca are two forms of text which explore similar ideas. Brave New World is a novel written by Aldous Huxley and published in 1932, Gattaca is a film directed by Andrew Niccol and released in 1997. The two texts promote similar ideas, in which modern society will morph into a dystopic and inhumane world for the sake of stability. One of these ideas is that genetic manipulation will lead to a dystopic society, in which those genetically disadvantaged will be discriminated against and have far less opportunity. This however produces a stable society in which the idea of control through oppression of the weak and disadvantaged is explored, this can be seen through the alphas running the ‘New World’ in Brave New World and the ‘degenerates’ being oppressed in Gattaca. Huxley and Niccol explore the dangers of genetic manipulation through the use of the above ideas. …show more content…
Gattaca presents a society in which people are discriminated against depending on their genetic limitations, Brave New World however, explores the dangers of an enhancement of this technology, in which people are not only manipulated, but artificially constructed to perform under the conditions and needs of the society. The two texts explore this idea implying that our world, may one day become like that of Brave New World, Gattaca presents themes that are already present in our society such as genetic manipulation, labelled ‘designer babies’, this results in the implication that the world we live in will evolve into the world present in Gattaca. The dystopic society in Gattaca closely resembles that of Brave New World, in which humans are no longer genetically manipulated to all be perfect as this would result in instability, instead humans are engineered to perform specific roles in society; the idea explored in these texts show that this inhumane society will one day become a