Our World Or Brave New World

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enhance life, or if they will cause the destruction of society and life as we know it. When thinking of progress, most people think of advances in the scientific fields, believing that most discoveries and technologies are beneficial to society. Are these advances as beneficial as most people think? In the novel Brave New World, the author Aldous Huxley, warns readers that scientific advances can be a threat to society. This is particularly evident in the fields of biology, technology and psychology.
One scientific advance of which Huxley warns readers of is that in biology. In the setting of Brave New World the mass production of humans is accomplished with the Bokanovsky process. In this process, human beings are genetically engineered in laboratories. "... a bokanovskified egg will bud, will proliferate, will divide. From eight to ninety-six buds, and every bud will grow into a perfectly formed embryo, and every embryo into a full sized adult"(6). One of the threats of ...

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injected in the decanting process. Another key factor in the process is oxygen deprivation. The lower the caste, the less oxygen they are given, according to Mr. Foster. Less oxygen reduces brain capacity and therefore lowers intelligence. Mental faculty, therefore, is predestined from the moment of cloning. The Bokanovsky process involves mass production, an important idea in industrialized society. By creating a world where humans are mass produced, Brave New World demonstrates that advances in biology can be dangerous if used without regard for the well being of the human race. Here we see that a major factor to stability that the novel implies is that individuality must be ...

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