In the book Brave New World Aldous Huxley makes as close to accurate predictions as someone could for how our world will be close to 500 years in the future. In the beginning most of the Ideas are to farfetched for today’s society but as the book goes on these ideas become more real. One of Huxley’s main predictions is that drugs will be a big part of everyone’s daily life and people will take these drugs for almost anything. One of Huxley’s main predictions is coming true in today's society, the facts show that people in our present day society use antidepressants to help them escape from feeling bad and also to make them feel good and can even be used as a party enhancer. Another way this has been coming true is the use of birth control
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On the other hand in Brave New World birth control is used because in their society having a natural born child is unacceptable and not allowed in their society if you want to stay there. An additional one of Huxley’s predictions of the future world was that women would have a form of birth control or prevention so they could have sexual interactions without having to worry about getting pregnant. Brave New World was written in the 1930’s when there wasn’t even an idea about making birth control, the women who didn’t want to have babies or have to worry had no other choice. In Brave New World Lenina says, ‘“ My baby, over and over again. ‘My baby, and oh, oh at my breast, the little hands, the hunger, and that unspeakable agonizing pleasure! Till at last my baby sleeps, my baby sleeps with a bubbly of white milk at the corner of his mouth.”’ where Mustapha Mond says ‘“Yes,’ nodding his head, ‘you may as well shudder’” (Huxley 38),this shows how there controller frowns on the thought of having a natural baby and that they aren’t supposed to like the idea of it either. The people are taught that monogamy and having a natural birth is wrong and not allowed. On the other hand in our world some women are frowned upon if they have an abortion or that they are unfulfilled if you don’t raise and have your own child. In today’s world when women are incapable of having a child or just don’t want to bear their own use a surrogate. In most people's eyes this is wrong because in our society it’s the expectation that you bear your own child. In spite of the fact in the article “Reproductive Rights” it’s stated that “The infinite number of possibilities only compound the ethical and moral dilemmas encountered during the implementation of surrogacy as a primary means of enabling couples who wish to have children but
On the other hand in Brave New World birth control is used because in their society having a natural born child is unacceptable and not allowed in their society if you want to stay there. An additional one of Huxley’s predictions of the future world was that women would have a form of birth control or prevention so they could have sexual interactions without having to worry about getting pregnant. Brave New World was written in the 1930’s when there wasn’t even an idea about making birth control, the women who didn’t want to have babies or have to worry had no other choice. In Brave New World Lenina says, ‘“ My baby, over and over again. ‘My baby, and oh, oh at my breast, the little hands, the hunger, and that unspeakable agonizing pleasure! Till at last my baby sleeps, my baby sleeps with a bubbly of white milk at the corner of his mouth.”’ where Mustapha Mond says ‘“Yes,’ nodding his head, ‘you may as well shudder’” (Huxley 38),this shows how there controller frowns on the thought of having a natural baby and that they aren’t supposed to like the idea of it either. The people are taught that monogamy and having a natural birth is wrong and not allowed. On the other hand in our world some women are frowned upon if they have an abortion or that they are unfulfilled if you don’t raise and have your own child. In today’s world when women are incapable of having a child or just don’t want to bear their own use a surrogate. In most people's eyes this is wrong because in our society it’s the expectation that you bear your own child. In spite of the fact in the article “Reproductive Rights” it’s stated that “The infinite number of possibilities only compound the ethical and moral dilemmas encountered during the implementation of surrogacy as a primary means of enabling couples who wish to have children but