Brave New World

             The topic, 'A Social Issue' is important towards my understanding of the novel Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley as Huxley made his futuristic worls a social experiment involving genetics.
             This social experiment shows the values around which the future revolves and the main aim of the new world is to obtain 'community, identity, stability', which was the motto for this new society.
             An example of how the obtained 'community, identity, stability' was to take away the peoples' freedom. One way they did this was through the process of cloning children, and the undergoing of conditioning throughout childhood, that left the people of the Brave New World trained in many things that society found socially acceptable such as sexual games and consumerism.
             Throughout the novel the reader sees this new scientific experiment as a negative thing, as Huxley portrays a superficial, fake world where people take drugs such as Soma to become artificially happy rather than feeling natural feelings, a statement of freedom.
             Huxley was portraying this world as negative as he was trying to issue the reader with a warning to be careful of the power we unleash through science. As shown in this social experiment, the possible outcomes are showing a dystopia, a negative future rather than a positive one.
             It also shows that through this social experiment, the government can have complete control over society and take away their freedom and individuality with conditioning, and no one seems to question it, besides Bernard Marx, who feels there is something wrong but cannot put his finger on it.
             The response we feel as a reader towards the social experiment portrayed in Brave New World is a negative one, as an illusion of dystopia is created within the mind. This is a vital idea to be comprehended, to make the reader understand the novel.
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