The Possibilities of Brave New World in our Society

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The dystopian novel Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, displays a controlled society where people have a designated position. Everyone is made in a test tube and placed in different caste: Alpha, Beta, Gama, Delta, or Epsilon. The upper castes are intelligent and have managerial jobs, whereas the lower castes do the manual labor. The citizens within this society are conditioned to believe, hate, love, or do certain things that their caste requires. For instance, the Alphas are set to believe that they have the best jobs, whereas the Epsilons believe that their jobs are better because they don’t have work as hard as the other castes. The science and technology within Brave New World is what makes this society possible. The science and technology being invented today have the potential of our real world society ending up much like the society in Brave New World. Starting with the study of genetically modified bacteria leading up to genetically modified humans. And then eventually having children conceived in test tubes. All the studies and experiments being done today are the stepping stones to a controlled society much like Brave New World.
Every human being in this controlled society is created on an assembly line in test tubes much like a factory. The first test tube baby in our world was born in Great Britain on the 25th of July 1978. They retrieved one of the mother eggs and placed into a test tub wear it was fertilized with a father’s sperm. The scientist then waited for the cell to divide in to 64 cells, then placed the fertilized egg in the mother’s uterus were it was successfully embedded, and then the baby was born about 9 months later. There are many more humans that have been conceived in this way. This is part of the ...

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...tions between the nerves and brain thus making them more relax. If the drug soma was taken advantage of it can be used to make people less stress to fulfill their tasks.
The science and technology that is used throughout Brave New World is already present or being devolved in our real world society. It’s kind of a scary thing to think about because the society within Brave New World is very different from the society we have today. There are no emotions; you are satisfied 24/7 with your life. No such thing as family and you only associate with people of your class. Basically, if this would have to happen in our society the government would have to get rid of the U.S. Constitution and everything else that our founding fathers have created to make our society the way it is today. The science and technology is out there to create such a society as in Brave New World.

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