The Role of Science and Psychology
The novel Brave New World by Aldous Huxley is about a World State where there are no imperfections and every citizen is controlled by the government. Everyone in the State is born by genetic cloning and is chemically produced to be in a certain caste: Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta and Epsilon. The Alphas are at the top of the food chain and are the most intelligent people in the State, while Epsilons are used for slavery. In the novel, Bernard, an overly-intelligent Alpha, goes outside of their “perfect world” to a reservation and meets a man named John. Apparently, John’s mother, Linda, has been to the World State before and has conceived a child with one of the citizens that were there, she was forced to move back and raise her child at the reservation. After years of mourning from Linda, Bernard takes both John and his mother to the World State once again. While they were there John finds out that the people in the State live in a sexualized, emotionless world. Throughout the novel we find out that the government of the World State controls the way everyone thinks and feels by using their knowledge on science and psychology. The science and psychology used in Brave New World is extremely controversial and unethical due to the fact they dehumanize the citizens in order to gain political, …show more content…
In 1997 the first living organism to ever be cloned was Dolly the sheep. Dolly went through a procedure called the somatic nuclear transfer; they basically made an identical copy of a sheep. In the World State, babies are also made by genetic cloning; the process in which they do so is called the Bokanovsky Process. They make the children by shocking an egg and distributing it amongst ninety six embryos. In each “tube” they put different chemicals inside of them that divide them into their separate castes, so their job in the World State is
The novel Brave New World by Aldous Huxley is about a World State where there are no imperfections and every citizen is controlled by the government. Everyone in the State is born by genetic cloning and is chemically produced to be in a certain caste: Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta and Epsilon. The Alphas are at the top of the food chain and are the most intelligent people in the State, while Epsilons are used for slavery. In the novel, Bernard, an overly-intelligent Alpha, goes outside of their “perfect world” to a reservation and meets a man named John. Apparently, John’s mother, Linda, has been to the World State before and has conceived a child with one of the citizens that were there, she was forced to move back and raise her child at the reservation. After years of mourning from Linda, Bernard takes both John and his mother to the World State once again. While they were there John finds out that the people in the State live in a sexualized, emotionless world. Throughout the novel we find out that the government of the World State controls the way everyone thinks and feels by using their knowledge on science and psychology. The science and psychology used in Brave New World is extremely controversial and unethical due to the fact they dehumanize the citizens in order to gain political, …show more content…
In 1997 the first living organism to ever be cloned was Dolly the sheep. Dolly went through a procedure called the somatic nuclear transfer; they basically made an identical copy of a sheep. In the World State, babies are also made by genetic cloning; the process in which they do so is called the Bokanovsky Process. They make the children by shocking an egg and distributing it amongst ninety six embryos. In each “tube” they put different chemicals inside of them that divide them into their separate castes, so their job in the World State is