Characteristics in A Brave New World In Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, many different characteristics are used such as politics, religion, science, and history in The World State. All of these qualities greatly affect the setting of the novel because with these it could be portrayed as a modern utopia or future dystopia. It creates the futuristic setting because of the scientific factors that prove it would not happen today. Also, the politics are very different than today because they have a different government. Some believe this novel is the idea of heaven “genetic manipulation, sexual liberation, the war against aging, the leisure society” (Houellebecq 132). Despite the Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World being set in a future dystopia
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Science affects this book because “they live in a society shaped by science so completely and absolutely that they are, in a literal sense, its very products” (Baker 76). The World State uses artificial insemination and a birthing process so that “nature has been displaced bu the artificial products of reason, and the most complex of natural processes, the reproductive cycle of conception and birth, has been mastered by genetic engineering” (Baker 80). These babies are then trained for their specific role in society using different types of technology. Henry Ford also had a huge affect “such as unbending pursuit of wealth through the technique of mass production” (Baker 74) because of his assembly line creation. He was a “pervasive theme in Brave New World” because of the “the “spiritual self-mutilation: inflicted by modern industrial societies on their citizens as a consequence of mechanic technology” (Baker 75). They used something called a Bokanovsky’s process which is a fictional process of human cloning that is a key aspect of the world envisioned in Aldous Huxley's novel Brave New World. The process is applied to fertilized human eggs in vitro, causing them to split into identical genetic copies of the original. Overall, Science is a big factor because of the futuristic aspect of the book. When psychology is combined with advances in embryology, “would permit not only extensive social conditioning but prenatal education, a possibility dramatized by Huxley in Brave New World, where one of his characters is named after Watson and genetic engineering has become a necessary part of the social order” (Baker 72). Science also affects the dystopia or utopia of the book. In this society there would be no children without technology. It is important to recognize science vs. technology. Ultimately, science has a major effect because it is what the World State is totally run
Science affects this book because “they live in a society shaped by science so completely and absolutely that they are, in a literal sense, its very products” (Baker 76). The World State uses artificial insemination and a birthing process so that “nature has been displaced bu the artificial products of reason, and the most complex of natural processes, the reproductive cycle of conception and birth, has been mastered by genetic engineering” (Baker 80). These babies are then trained for their specific role in society using different types of technology. Henry Ford also had a huge affect “such as unbending pursuit of wealth through the technique of mass production” (Baker 74) because of his assembly line creation. He was a “pervasive theme in Brave New World” because of the “the “spiritual self-mutilation: inflicted by modern industrial societies on their citizens as a consequence of mechanic technology” (Baker 75). They used something called a Bokanovsky’s process which is a fictional process of human cloning that is a key aspect of the world envisioned in Aldous Huxley's novel Brave New World. The process is applied to fertilized human eggs in vitro, causing them to split into identical genetic copies of the original. Overall, Science is a big factor because of the futuristic aspect of the book. When psychology is combined with advances in embryology, “would permit not only extensive social conditioning but prenatal education, a possibility dramatized by Huxley in Brave New World, where one of his characters is named after Watson and genetic engineering has become a necessary part of the social order” (Baker 72). Science also affects the dystopia or utopia of the book. In this society there would be no children without technology. It is important to recognize science vs. technology. Ultimately, science has a major effect because it is what the World State is totally run