Cloning In Brave New World

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The most crucial part to any book is how it ends, in the case of the novel Brave New World it was a disappointment in the fact that nothing in society has been resolved. Aldous Huxley wrote about Bernard Marx and John the most throughout the book and there end was the opposite of what was had hoped for them. In the final chapter both characters went separate ways, Bernard was preparing to leave the World State and go to Falklands with Helmholtz. As for John he left readers feeling glum that he decided to commit suicide after realizing that he needed to be purified from the sins of coming to the World State instead of staying on the Indian Reserve. These characters both had a similar mindset when it came to how they preserved society. Bernard …show more content…

In the novel people are made in the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre where they are brainwashed into a certain mindset pertaining to which level of the caste system they belong to. The whole idea for cloning is so that the production of children is not dependent on men and women. There are five different levels that someone can be born into either Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, or Epsilon. Gamma, Delta, and Epsilon are considered to be inferior and are created at a faster rate than Alphas and Betas. There is more of a need for lower class people because of all the jobs that need to be done such as being a mailman, garbageman, or a plumber. Each child is also conditioned to the environment that they will be working in and are also exposed to toxic chemicals while in the …show more content…

The topics such as cloning, relationships, and how the government worked gave a different view of what the future could be. At the rate that things are going, we very well may be cloning humans similarly to the novel. A book that could be compared to Brave New World is Fahrenheit 451 written by Ray Bradbury. The books that are comparable contain content pertaining to the abandonment of books, rules of society, and characters that do not fit in. They also take place in a world that is slightly different than the world