Technology In Brave New World

“It is a frightening experience, indeed, to discover how much of Huxley’s satirical prediction of a distant future became reality in so short a time.” – New York Times Book Review. Brave New World is a novel written by Aldous Huxley and his criticism on the society he lived in. Huxley delivers a message in his writing of controlling technology enhancements before they control us. He criticizes scientific developments because these methods of controlling the population can soon become a reality. The government is based off of Henry Ford’s Model T and his success of making an assembly line to create each car identical. In this book, one form of controlling for the government is giving out Soma, a drug that affects people’s brain and how they act. The government also separates the population into groups of Alpha, Beta,

‘You really know where you are. For the first time in history”’ (Huxley 18). In this novel, the government has taken over the reproduction of humans and alters their brains to limit creativity and individuality. Those who are ‘born’ into the lower classes of Gamma, Delta, and Epsilon undergo the Bokanovsky Process. This process is cloning and divides the embryos into ninety-six identical human beings that perform identical tasks in identical places. These help to maintain stability through all class and are then able to produce more efficiently than before. Alphas and Betas continue to undergo nine-months to be born, but through tubes and conveyer belts. The three lower castes are given alcohol to affect growth and knowledge, the top two are given less so they become more of a person as they develop in life. Huxley is here to remind us that if science overtakes us, humans will be allowed very little freedom in how much they are able to act as their own person. Aldous Huxley is saying cloning is evolving more everyday, and the stake of an individual human is at risk than