What Are The Pros And Cons Of Children In Brave New World

Imagine a life where you had no parents or grandparents. A life where you had no one to care for you or make sure you are okay. That is what a life without relationships would be like. Being created by scientists in a lab and growing up in a place where you are being taught what to like and what to do. That is what it is like in the World State in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World. Brave New World suggests human relationships are valuable in human life by showing what a life would be like without any lasting human relationships. In the Brave New World children are designed in lab. Embryos are made when scientists fertilize the eggs and grow them in bottles. The futures of these embryos are decided and they are placed into society with the jobs they are assigned. As young children they are brutally trained into liking certain things and acting in certain ways. “He waved his hand again, and the Head Nurse pressed a second lever. The screaming of the babies suddenly changed its tone. There was something desperate, almost insane, about the sharp spasmodic yelps to which they now gave utterance. Their little bodies twitched and stiffened; their limbs moved jerkily as if to tug of unseen wires.” (Huxley 21) The children were being shocked and scared when in front of

They are cared for and loved. They discover what they like and dislike naturally. Parents influence their children more than anything and are essential to the growth of a child. Growing up with good parents encourages children to make relationships like their parents relationships. Even a kid with bad parents has their own individuality and qualities. Their parents still influenced them to be different and be better than them. In the Brave New World, children grow up without parents to influence them like they should. They are not raised by someone who loves them and cares for them. They do not have the most important relationship anybody ever