Brave New World Vs. Modern SOciety

Title: Brave New World Vs. Modern SOciety
Category: Literature / Novels
Details: Words: 979 | Pages: 4.2 (approximately 235 words/page)

Brave New World Vs. Modern SOciety

Although the book Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley, was written more than 60 years ago, its subject has become more popular since most of the technologies described in the book have, at least, partially, become a reality. Huxley's community of Utopia is a futuristic society designed by genetic engineering, and controlled by neural conditioning with mind-altering drugs and a manipulative media system. Yet, despite the similarities, the reader also finds many contrasts between the two …showed first 75 words of 979 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 979 total…controlled reproduction and strict artificial insemination processes to prevent overpopulation? Will occupations be predecided based on our preprescribed and artificially induced capabilities? Will the concept of family become a shameful reminder of another unenlightened time in human history? Although the word Utopia has become synonymous with what an “exemplary state” should be, Huxley’s Utopia is not a world we should strive to duplicate, but rather, learn from to correct our mistakes in the future.

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