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With the advent of cloning and human genetic manipulation on the horizon, the focus of the future doesn't seem to be jet packs, automated apartments, and sarcastic robot maids as in so many "The Jetsons" cartoons. The focus instead revolves around how this growing ability to alter the nature of humanity can impact the development of our culture for good or ill. Culture, or "our way of life," is always the underlying concern of every human achievement, even if only sub-consciously. Culture is the subtext to our lives, telling us what to do when, what to think now, and who we are or are not in society. In class many of our discussions have been about the social roles of men and women in our culture. In this paper I will disscuss those roles as presented in the literary genre of Science Fiction (more appropriately referred to as Speculative Fiction) using a survey of three novels (Brave New World, The Gate to Women's Country, and He, She and It) and one short story ("Day Million") as my primary sources. These works offer narrative speculations on changes in human sexuality and gender roles in future societies. They offer valuable commentary on the importance o
This is symbolized in Bernard's love interest Lenina. The novel opens in the "present" with Stavia, the protagonist, being ceremonially rejected by her son who chooses to live with the warriors. When she loses custody of her beloved son, she returns to their birthplace, a little enclave centered on the practice of Judaism, and accepts a job working for Avram, the father of her childhood lover. Men also compare different women as sexual partners and recommend previous lovers to others. In the end it does not matter what you were born as, since you can be anything your imagination envisions. The literary genre of Science Fiction (more appropriately referred to as Speculative Fiction) is often about the future containing amazing technologies and alien races. She is only interested in consuming soma, going out, wearing the right clothes, and having sex. Women are seen and regard themselves as "meat" and, as in our culture, meat, which must be lean, not fat. But Yod is not content to simple be a half copy of a person. Three hundred years ago society as we know it today was destroyed in nuclear war. A man in essence playing God creates Yod. Tepper's tale is a cautionary one.
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