Brave New World

Introduction

Modern society was imagined by Aldous Huxley in Brave New World almost eighty years ago. Most of the things that he imagined have already come into existence which shows similarities between Huxley's vision and contemporary society. Moreover, he also has his viewpoint with regards to nature of humanity and also gave predictions with regards to Brave New World. However, there were also some things that were predicted by him which were not correct.

Discussion

Aldous Huzley wrote his novel, Brave New World which was published in 1932. In the novel, the author has anticipated the developments that would take place in the future and all the changes that would take place in the future and change the society. The novel that has been written can be considered as science fiction and this is because it has been written on the basis of futurology.

This story was based on the study of Central London Hatchery and conditioning center and explains the role of social conditioning and artificial breeding of the world. At the start, of the novel, the Director of the Centre (D.H.C.) introduces the reader, new students on the tour and facilities of the institutions as well as its operations. The biological tour of the assembly line related to the test tube births as the main focus. In the beginning, they were shown the fertilizing room, the Social Predestination Room, then the bottling room and in the end the Decanting Room. Besides this, the D.H.C kept on explaining different processes and operations of the plants. Out of them the most prominent was the Bokanovsky's Process was the first as the D.H.C explained it: “As a process in which one fertilized egg was produced from 8 to 96 "buds" that will produce human beings in the end who will be identically same (Bloom, pp. 12).

The conditioning explained in the process is of the view that, people should accept their destiny, which is restrained, to them and we cannot escape destiny. We should be clear about everything which will happen and should have faith in their destiny. Destiny occurs within the caste system, which was based on the social hierarchy as ranging from traits such as handsome intelligent. The writer has also discussed the Alpha pulses which extend to the working drone Epsilons.

Huxley, at first sheds his knowledge regarding the futuristic world and its significance as it explains the motto of ...