In BNW, society is largely based around certain scientific advancements. They have a large emphasis on genetic engineering and conditioning at young ages. This includes the birth of parent-less babies, hypnopedia, and shock therapy. To further this, a sort of hospice is used to help condition the young for death later in their life. Really, how close is our society’s scientific advancements to the Brave New World? Genetic engineering in BNW is a more advanced form involving the separation of a single cell many times to create multiple identical people. In their process, they also include immunizations to many diseases (Huxley). In today’s current society, there have been several clones of several different animals that were born. Dolly, a sheep, is the most famous cloned mammal. Human twins are also considered clones. The Bokanovsky process is an extreme form of having twins. Producing super large numbers of identical twins. South Korean scientists cloned 30 human embryos and used them to produce stem cells for research. The ability to clone tissue that has been frozen for sixteen years helps to show just how advanced the cloning process …show more content…
Hypnotism is used to try and replace bad habits, thoughts, and emotions with good ones in response to specific events or memories (UMMC). In the BNW, hypnopedia is a repetition of sentences spoken to the children while they are sleeping to give them various dispositions of themselves and other types of people (Huxley). Shock therapy is another form of conditioning used on 100,000 people each year to try and solve mental illnesses, and strange behaviors (MHA). In the BNW, shock therapy is used to strike terror in children to steer them away from books and nature. This is just the same as the “Little Albert Experiment” carried out by Watson to instill a fear of furry animals into the mind of a small child through a bad stimulus when the child does something associated with the