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Essay / Transformation of technology in Brave by Aldous Huxley...
I have just read the novel Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. This novel is Huxley's satirical vision of the "utopian future" where humans are genetically bred to serve a designated purpose for the rest of their lives. Huxley first published a version of this book in 1932. It is remarkable how Huxley made predictions about technological reproduction and manipulation at a time when technology was not widespread. Huxley had established himself as a writer and social satirist. A modern utopia by HG Wells, based on an idealistic vision of the future, inspired Huxley to write Brave New World, a more pessimistic, provocative and terrifying prediction of the future. This novel follows the story of a world controlled by a single global power, where genetic engineering has replaced sexual reproduction. Huxley covers a wide variety of topics in his novel. Three of the main ideas that Huxley focused on were how too much technological advancement can take over a society, unattainable happiness, and the dehumanization of sex. The novel begins at the hatching and conditioning center in central London, where a group of students are on tour with the Director of Hatcheries. The director explains that the hatching center is where thousands of almost identical human embryos are produced. Embryos are designed to have a designated class, with each class differentiating social hierarchies. The highest class is the most intuitive and influential, and the lowest class does the dirty work of society. In this society, children are programmed specifically for what their profession will be later in life; they are trained to know their likes and dislikes, so they will do certain things when they are older regarding the middle of the paper...... I think Brave New World is a strange but ingeniously crafted novel. . Huxley's ideas about the future were thought-provoking and made me re-evaluate the society we currently live in and wonder if the society he described in his novel would ever become a reality. Huxley really took us forward in time, to a horrible controlled world government with no freedom, and gave a really unique and different idea of how things could possibly end up if the choices the world decides to make ultimately end up. turn against them. The relationships between characters, like John and Lenina, really made me evaluate the idea that emotional relationships were illegal. Huxley urged me to support them. The themes of too many technological advances can take over a society, of unattainable happiness and the dehumanization of sex really made this novel eccentric and a very intriguing story..