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A 3 page paper which examines the most salient aspects of the novel as they related to American society. No additional sources are used.
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3 pages (~225 words per page)
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It was the modern worlds attempt at achieving through technology the utopia Thomas More had waxed poetically about centuries earlier. But in order to create the perfect society,
all imperfections must be eliminated. Human beings were flawed by nature; therefore, they needed to be genetically programmed in order to comprise a master race. They were hatched
in laboratories, drugged to feel happy, and to function as their designated class (Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta or Epsilon). They were high-functioning robots with anything remotely resembling humanity or
frailty medically excised. This was an intentionally frightening bit of social commentary directed at a world ravaged by economic depression and poised on the brink of catastrophic war.
In Brave New World, Aldous Huxley was warning of what may happen should technology continue to run amok much as Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley cautioned in Frankenstein. But what was
once regarded as total fiction has been eerily transformed into reality by the American society of the twenty-first century, as salient aspects of the novel clearly indicate. The
first pages of Brave New World grapple with the concept of cloning, which the average American of the 1930s knew nothing about. London societys most important government agency was
Hatcheries and Conditioning, and its Director seemed to wield more power than the Prime Minister. Similarly, American scientists today are redefining genetics, medicine, and even criminal forensics, which have
made them more influential than political leaders. In the first chapter of Brave New World, the Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning describes Bokanovskys Process to students who are touring
the facility: "One egg, one embryo, one adult-normality. But a bokanovskified egg will bud, will proliferate, will divide. From eight to ninety-six buds, and every bud will
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