Changes to Society in Brave New World

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In modern day now women are able to genetically choose what they’re baby would be like. Sperm banks are required to have a profile of each man that donates sperm. This gives the opportunity to women to choose what kind of characteristics their baby would inherit. Which this concept ties into brave new world. In the book they are created by machine basically but multiple eggs will produce more than 40 or about 40. But if you were going to be high class you would be created by one egg. And he high class people were in control of what kind of people they needed. If you weren’t going to be all there you would be injected with alcohol etc. It was a world that was controlled and cruel. Such as the modern world due to the fact that women are giving the opportunity to pick the kind of characteristics that they please for their children. Which most people would think would be absurd. Another way of doing such thing is doing genetic mutation. This basically is a permanent change in the DNA sequence. There are three ways a genetic mutation can possibly occur. One it would be passed down and the mutation would inherit. Also it can progressively occur over time without the person knowing it’s actually happening. Or it can be altered which a genetic message is carried to the DNA and changes it. There are so many ways to alter or choose what kind of genetics or DNA you would like to choose for the human being you create. If it’s one thing modern society would have to say it’d be why create something piece by piece when you can create something on your own with out no genetic mutations or any sperm donation. You shouldn’t interfere with what you create at all. In the brave new world Linda was ashamed that she was pregnant because babies weren’t...

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...eing with more than one person is absolutely completely fine. John is hurt by his want he has for Lenina and her and the way she can’t return his love back. The ultimate problem between John’s desire and love and Lenina’s desire for sex shows the profound difference in values between the new world and the real humanity. The way they don’t care if one of their person has sexual intercourse, with more than one person. Compared to humanity where love is an actual value to them they cherish the desire for someone. The morals of this book are really quite different. From any other book in society now. Because modern society are based of true love and fantasy, or any sort of other fiction. Society has books that are also against cheating or any sort of promiscuous suspicion of a partner. Society is very different from the fiction world they base the future society off of.

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