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Comparing Brave New World And Today's Society

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The New World and today’s society are similar on some levels of the society’s characteristics. Throughout the book there are many similarities between modern society and the society in Brave New World that brought question to just have close the two actually are. Two of these similarities were in the scientific advancements of the New World and in the personal relationships between people. Advancements in science are being made all the time; science in today’s society is rapidly changing- adding new information to the things already known and figuring out things that weren’t known before. One of the scientific advancements that have taken place in Brave New World is their ability to fertilize the egg and put them through the Bokanovsky’s process or the multiplication of offspring that each egg can produce, allowing 96 people from each egg. This process also lets the DHC (and other Hatchery workers) to determine how many of each type of person there will be, how many will be girls or boys and how many will be able to reproduce on their own or won’t be able to. The Bokanovsky’s process enabled them to control all of these variables which they did not leave to nature. …show more content…

In Brave New World mothers were not needed, in fact they were a shameful thing, however in today’s society she is still a needed component but IVF is a step towards that direction. In some cases people can even control certain variables. For example, if they do not have a significant other but want a biological child there are places that have supplies of sperm and eggs that were donated where people can choose the “person” they want to be mixed with. Therefore, picking out the traits of a half of the equation, controlling those things

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Throughout the story, I found Brave New World by Aldous Huxley to be significantly similar to our world. For the book to be published in the 1930s, Huxley eerily predicted what our world would look like. For example, when he wrote the book, relationships were more traditional; people married and gave birth to children as soon as possible. In Brave New World, Huxley imagined a world where relationships are more open and less conservative. Although the ideas sound extreme, they are relevant today as the predictions from the book are slowly coming true.

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The New World’s habitual use of Bokanovsky’s process, a method of artificially reproducing identical human embryos in mass quantities, alludes to a French Bureaucrat who advocated for governmental efficiency. The use of this process is a means of controlling the size of the population and ensuring a stable society. The Director conveys the importance of the Bokanovsky Process, "Bokanovsky's Process is one of the major instruments of social stability… If we could bokanovskify indefinitely the whole problem would be solved” (Huxley 7). This passage demonstrates the futuristic society's belief that technology is necessary to prevent instability in any shape or form.

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Some people think that Brave New World is no longer relevant today because it was written more than 70 years ago. However, there are many ideas in Brave New World that are present in today’s society. For example, in chapter 16 of Brave New World, Mond is talking to John about why shakespeare is forbidden in their society. He mentions how in a society full of consumers, everything must always be new to keep the people buying, so they have to get rid of things that would be popular for a while like good books or beautiful art. In today’s society, we seem to have the same mindset.

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