Brave New World

            In Brave New World many advanced forms of technology and sciences lead the reader's brain on an imaginative trip into the future. It presents a futuristic look at how science can develop into a scary, but obvious possibility. This society eliminates marriage, death, and parental care, among many other things. They invent new drugs, which control the minds of the populace. Brave New World uses science through their form of birth, their drugs, and their use of technology to control a society.
             At the beginning of the book the reader sees the first example of the sciences used in Brave New Word. Brave New World opens in a technically advanced future world. The Director of World Hatcheries leads the new hatchery students on a tour of a Conditioning Center in London where workers produce babies in bottles and presort to determine their class level, which range from Alpha-plus, the highest level, to Epsilon-minus, the lowest. To prevent pregnancies women have their ovaries surgically removed. The government completely controls the populace of Brave New World. Conditioned to the ways of the society and raised in foster like homes, the children have no parental care throughout their lives.
             Secondly, drugs rid people of their very emotions. When the people feel down, they take some soma, a wonder drug. This drug controls them. Subliminal messages, sent through tubes control the babies at birth, as well as throughout their lives. Brave New World exist as a conditioned society, they have no thoughts or emotions of their own. Soma, the "wonder drug," also represents instant gratification and its ability to control a world, and a symbol of the power of science in the society.
             Furthermore the society of Brave New World uses technology to control a society. The people of the world have no thoughts of their own. Their minds, exclusively concentrated on sexual intercourse and other forms of pleasure, lead them t...

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