Noah Byron Byron 1 Ms. Maloney World Lit. 2 September 18, 2015 Brave New World is Confusing I chose to read Brave New World by Aldous Huxley because I heard it was a great story and an easy read. After reading the first page I was attached because it was very detailed and seemed like it had a cool plot. Although it did confuse me at some parts, I would still say this book was a good read. While reading this I thought about my family and how important they are to me. Another theme that really caught my attention was how technology is really changing this world. The last thing that really captured me was genetically modifying organisms and humans while advancing in science and technology. Although I came across parts throughout …show more content…
this book that were confusing, I found that it made me reflect a lot on my family and think about advancements in science and technology. What caught my attention and produced the confusion I found at some parts of the book stood out to me.
This book is mostly about very advanced forms of science including cloning, modifying genetic code DNA, and scientific processes like bokanovsky's process just to name a few. I am not very good in science and had a hard time understanding all this information and processes. Also when they explained what these things were and had all these different names for everything I had a hard time remembering them so I did a lot of looking back in the book and I just had a hard time with that part. For example when the professor explains bokanovsky’s process he says “One egg, one embryo, one adult-normality. But a bokanovskified egg will bud, will proliferate, will divide. From eight to ninety-six buds,”(Huxley 5) and I could not remember that throughout the book. Whenever he referred to this I would have to look back and after a while I remembered this but I just remember that was one of the things that confused me and gave me a hard …show more content…
time. While reading this book I reflected a lot on how important family is to me. I usually don’t think about what my family means to me because I see them everyday and just accept the fact that they are there for me. Early on in the book I developed a thought in my head about family and what they mean to me. Early on when the professor gives a tour of the lab, I kind of knew what he was referring to when he showed off each piece of equipment. I pieced it together using evidence from the book and what I knew prior to starting this book. When I turned to the fifth page I read “One egg, one embryo, one adult-normality. But a bokanovskified egg will bud, will proliferate, will divide. From eight to ninety-six buds,”(Huxley 5). Not only did this confuse me but this proved me to be right. Here is where I put my book down and thought about what would happen if laboratories in the modern world were breeding humans. In addition to my confusion and reflecting on family, throughout this book a major theme to me was genetically modifying organisms.
I know a lot about these because of my mom. She has adopted the whole healthy lifestyle into my family's eating habits. Everything she buys is GMO free and she's explained what these are to me. According to who.int “Genetically modified organisms (GMOs) can be defined as organisms (i.e. plants, animals or microorganisms) in which the genetic material (DNA) has been altered in a way that does not occur naturally by mating and/or natural recombination.” In the book they alter the embryos DNA to make the person that comes from the egg a certain member of society. The director says “fertilized ova went back to the incubators; where the Alphas and Betas remained until definitely bottled; while the Gammas, Deltas and Epsilons were brought out again, after only thirty-six hours, to undergo Bokanovsky's Process,” (Huxley 6). Bokanovsky’s process is where human eggs undergo examination and exchange DNA with another egg so they can make a clone. The reason they would need to do this is because they are making the members of society and once they have an egg for lets say a laborer they will clone that egg and make them “split” many times, which is called budding. This is Genetical Modification at a much more extreme level but I was able to relate this to my own
life. Ultimately, this book was a good read. I enjoyed many aspects of the book and had a fun time reading this book. Even though it was a rather easy read it had some very hard parts to understand and some complicated processes that were explained. This book especially made me reflect on my family and also triggered my imagination about life without without them. It also talked about something I know quite a bit of information about which is genetically modified organisms. This major theme in the book related to my personal life a lot. Mainly because my mom only buys organic food that is GMO free. Although I came across parts throughout this book that were confusing, I found that it made me reflect a lot on my family and think about advancements in science and technology.
Brave New World, a novel written by Aldous Huxley, can be compared and contrasted with an episode of The Twilight Zone, a fantasy, science-fiction television series, called “Number 12 Looks Just Like You.” Brave New World is a highly regarded and renowned work of literature as The Twilight Zone is considered one of the greatest television series of all time. Brave New World and The Twilight Zone’s episode “Number 12 Looks Just Like You” can be compared and contrasted on the basis of science, youth, and the government.
Self proclaimed philosopher, english writer, and novelist Aldous Huxley wrote the book Brave New World. One of the issues in the novel is how uniform the society is. There is no diversity in the in Brave New World. Huxley carefully examined on why society is the way it is. He wants the audience to understand the philosophy of a unique society different from a normal society.
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The novel Brave New World written by Aldous Huxley has been reviewed over time by many different people. Neil Postman is a man who has read Huxley’s novel and came to conclusions himself about the comparison between the novel, and the modern day problems we have in today’s society. Postman has made many relevant assertions as to how our modern society is similar to what Huxley had written about in his novel. The three main points I agree on with Postman is that people will begin to love their oppression; people would have no reason to fear books; and that the truth will be drowned by irrelevance.
Alduos Huxley, in his science fiction novel Brave New World written in 1932, presents a horrifying view of a possible future in which comfort and happiness replace hard work and incentive as society's priorities. Mustapha Mond and John the Savage are the symbolic characters in the book with clashing views. Taking place in a London of the future, the people of Utopia mindlessly enjoy having no individuality. In Brave New World, Huxley's distortion of religion, human relationships and psychological training are very effective and contrast sharply with the literary realism found in the Savage Reservation. Huxley uses Brave New World to send out a message to the general public warning our society not to be so bent on the happiness and comfort that comes with scientific advancements.
The novel titled Brave New World was written by Aldous Huxley in 1931. It is a work of science fiction that focuses on humans being born in a futuristic and artificial way. Personhood is the basis for this novel. Three examples of Huxley’s personhood are the lacking of individuality, being incredibly social and busy, and understanding that no one person belongs to an individual.
In his novel Brave New World, Aldous Huxley illustrates ways in which government and advanced science control society. Through actual visualization of this Utopian society, the reader is able to see how this state affects Huxley’s characters. Throughout the book, the author deals with many different aspects of control. Whether it is of his subjects’ feelings and emotions or of the society’s restraint of population growth, Huxley depicts government’s and science’s role in the brave new world of tomorrow.
Throughout the novel Brave New World the author Aldous Huxley shows the readers a dystopian society where Ford is worshiped as a God, people only live sixty years, where there is a drug exists without the unwanted side effects, and movies where you can feel what is happening. This is what the author thinks the future of the world would be. However, despite the author's attempt to predict the future the novel and the real world contrast because the concepts in the novel like love and marriage and life and death drastically contrast with how they are dealt with today.
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H. G. Wells had rather extreme views in every respect. He was a prominent Fabian for some time and upheld many socialistic ideas that many still have a problem with. His views on human nature were pessimistic, the future was an eventual disappointment, but his writing is the kind that can capture the attention of many people from all ages and walks of life and draw attention to his ideas—which he did to great effect. What makes these books so fascinating? To answer questions such as these, it is imperative to know about the life of the man behind the books. Herbert George Wells was born on September 21, 1866 into a lower middle class family. He worked hard as both a student and assistant to multiple jobs before moving to London with a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Science. It was here that he was introduced to “Darwin’s Bulldog”, the eminent biologist T. H. Huxley, a man whose opinions helped shape Wells’ own for the rest of his life. Instead of becoming a biologist as recommended by Huxley, he became instead a teacher, and overworked himself until he fell into very bad health. On the doctor’s orders, he went to the south coast of England to rest until he ran out of money and returned to London. It was around this time that he met Frank Harris, editor of the “Saturday Review” newspaper, and began his careers as both a novelist and a journalist. Throughout the rest of his life he wrote steadily, averaging a little more than a book per year. In following his writing, one can see four distinct styles emerging throughout it all. At the beginning he went through a science-fiction phase containing books such as The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds, and the Invisible Man. The second phase contained his “humorous Dickensian novel...
In the novel, Brave New World, written by Aldous Huxley, the author uses character development to contrast the two different societies present in the novel.He shows the importance of morality, or an increase in wisdom in the character of humankind. The author contrasts a society full of static and flat characters and another society full of round characters. In order to show the importance of life experiences in changing the character of individuals in the society.
The “Brave New World” by Aldous Huxley is one of his most famous novels. The author created a complex novel by developing a story focusing on a Utopian and Dystopian society. The novel was written 83 years ago and people are still amazed by the content of the book. The “Brave New World” takes the reader into a world of fantasy and fiction. In “Brave New World” Huxley describes a very different society.
George Santayana once said, “Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination.” In life, there is no such thing as a “complete utopia”, although that is what many people try to achieve. Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World is an attempt at a utopian society. In this brave new world, mothers and fathers and family are non-existent. Besides being non-existent, when words of that sort are mentioned, ears are covered and faces of disgust are made. In a report to the Controller, Bernard wrote,”…This is partly due, no doubt to the fact that he heard them talked about by the woman Linda, his m-----“(106). Words of the sort cannot even be written. Art, history, and the ability to have emotions are shunned. This utopia is shown as a perfect world in which everyone is happy. If this was true, the people would not need to take soma, an equivalent along the lines of a cross between one of today’s “designer drugs” and Prozac.
One of the most pressing issues in Brave New World is the use of science and technology and how it affects people’s lives. In the novel, technology is far more advanced than it was in Huxley’s time. One of the main uses of technology in the book is for making human beings. Humans are no longer born, but rather “decanted (Huxley 18).” Technology and science are used to make an embryo into whatever kind of human that is desired.
So what is a GMO? GMOs are organisms that are produced by forcible insertion of DNA into a host genome (Clark and Lehman, 2001). “Genetically modified food” is defined as that the food itself is a GMO, is a food containing GMO, or is a food produced using a GMO (Kramkowska Grzelah and Czyzewska, 2013). Terms such as biotechnology, genetic engineering, and genetic modification are all used interchangeably to refer to the production of transgenic food.