Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World’s” author introduces us to a futuristic technological world where science is used in order to maintain stability, and society is divided into five caste divisions consisting of Alphas, Betas, Gammas, Deltas, and Epsilons. Alphas are the highest in society while Epsilons the lowest. In the novel, the author demonstrates how society shows people’s beliefs using many characters throughout the entire story. The society was manufactured in a test tube therefore, it was factory made. The people were born and developed in the test tubes, so their human nature became adapted. Every little detail of a person's life is prearranged. Each person is made to live a happy life unless something intervenes which can restrict
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Men in workplaces and jobs are seen more powerful and mentally superior to women. Meanwhile, women have a higher standing in social roles and are seen inferior in some cases. We can see men are superior when the book starts because of how women are represented in the hatchery. The government sterilizes and controls the fetuses of females while men are not . "For of course," said Mr. Foster, "in the vast majority of cases, fertility is merely a nuisance. One fertile ovary in twelve hundred— that would really be quite sufficient for our purposes. But we want to have a good choice. And of course one must always have an enormous margin of safety. So we allow as many as thirty percent of the female embryos to develop normally. The others get a dose of male sex-hormone every twenty-four meters for the rest of the course. Result: they're decanted as freemartins—structurally quite normal (except," he had to admit, "that they do have the slightest tendency to grow beards), but sterile. Guaranteed sterile. Which brings us at last," continued Mr. Foster, "out of the realm of mere slavish imitation of nature into the much more interesting world of human invention” (Huxley 65). Here we can see that that the World State controls its citizens by controlling their
Men in workplaces and jobs are seen more powerful and mentally superior to women. Meanwhile, women have a higher standing in social roles and are seen inferior in some cases. We can see men are superior when the book starts because of how women are represented in the hatchery. The government sterilizes and controls the fetuses of females while men are not . "For of course," said Mr. Foster, "in the vast majority of cases, fertility is merely a nuisance. One fertile ovary in twelve hundred— that would really be quite sufficient for our purposes. But we want to have a good choice. And of course one must always have an enormous margin of safety. So we allow as many as thirty percent of the female embryos to develop normally. The others get a dose of male sex-hormone every twenty-four meters for the rest of the course. Result: they're decanted as freemartins—structurally quite normal (except," he had to admit, "that they do have the slightest tendency to grow beards), but sterile. Guaranteed sterile. Which brings us at last," continued Mr. Foster, "out of the realm of mere slavish imitation of nature into the much more interesting world of human invention” (Huxley 65). Here we can see that that the World State controls its citizens by controlling their