Brave New World

             Science is "... as dangerous as it's been beneficent."
             Science is very influential, and if we don't take control of it, then it will take control of us. Brave New World, is a book written upon this simple principle, and then takes a worse case scenario. Throughout the book Huxley (the author) shows us a society of which has been created upon pure science, a society without morals or individuality. But at the same time he shows us another society based without any science at all and shows us how much we do actually need science.
             In Brave New World, Huxley shows a society based upon six hundred odd years of science and its development with no moral conscience to keep it controlled. It is not based upon the evolution and development of science as we rely on continually in our society today, but upon past developments, and is no longer willing to keep on going. We can see that their society is bad. Science, when it had been released without any watchdog to keep an eye over it, in our opinion, has made their society into one that we would hate to be part of ourselves. The controller states "... we can't allow science to undo its own good work." (p226). The controller refers to what science has done as being "good", as this is basically to be expected of him, because he is the man who represents the society as a whole and takes the role of their leader. But we know that it isn't good work. The controller doesn't want science to keep on developing, as he does know that it will make things worse – it will "undo" what it has already created. So therefore even the controller himself is now wary of science, as he knows that it can turn out to be quite bad if not kept under tight control.
             Although it may seem at this stage that Huxley was totally against science within the novel, he wasn't. To prove so, he placed the society of Malpais, or in the "...

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