Brave New World: The Advancement of Science :: Brave New World

Brave unseasoned World The feeler of Science  Christy Campbell Mrs. Doig Eng OAC 2 16 May, 1996         When envisageing of progress, most people think of advances in thescientific fields, believing that most discoveries and technologies arebeneficial to society.  are these advances as beneficial as most people think?In the novel Brave New World, the author Aldous Huxley, warns readers thatscientific advances dirty dog be a threat to society.  This is particularly evident inthe fields of biology, engineering science and psychology.  According to Huxley, Thetheme of Brave New World is not the progression of science as such it is theadvancement of science as it affects pitying individuals(Huxley CLC 79 290).        One scientific advance of which Huxley warns readers of is that inbiology.  In the mise en scene of Brave New World, henceforth referred to as thereservation, the potty production of domain is accomplished with the Bokanovskyprocess.  In this process, human beings are genetic all toldy engineered inlaboratories.  ... a bokanovskified egg will bud, will pro emotional staterate, will divide.From eight to ninety-six buds, and all(prenominal) bud will grow into a perfectly formedembryo, and both embryo into a full sized adult(Huxley Brave New World 4).One of the threats of this genetic breeding is that no family structures existon the reservation.  Instead, humans are raised in conditioning centres.  R.T.Oerton points out that march knowledge indicates, for instance, that a childcannot be deprived of refers or parent figures, as were the children in BraveNew World, without suffering lasting pathologic damage to hispersonality.(Oerton CLC 7 308).  Another threat that the Bokanovsky processposes to society is that life is not highly valued.  Murder kills only theindividual and, after all what is an individual?  With a sweeping gesture he Mr.Foster, director of hatcheries and conditioning indicated the rows ofmicroscopes, the test-tubes, the incubators.  We can make a new one with thegreatest ease-as many as we like(Huxley Brave New World 133).  Human life holdsno value because it can be easily replaced through the Bokanovsky process.Furthermore, Bokanovskys method of mass production prevents individuality, ason the reservation, all people are cloned.  offset from the time of decanting,each embryo is genetically cloned to fall into one of the variant social classes.Within each social class, all members are cloned to be intellectually andphysically equivalent.  Biological technology helps to achieve this equality bygenetically shaping the minds of society.  In Brave New World , ones give-and-take depends on the amount of alcohol injected into their embryo.  Forexample, one of the lower classes in society, Epsilons, stimulate quite a high amount