Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley depicts a utopian community with a futuristic society developed through genetic engineering, and controlled by neural conditioning with mind-altering drugs and a manipulative media system. The extremes that Huxley's society demonstrates seem profound and ridiculous upon reading and many Americans could not ever imagine living like that. However, in reality, modern American society may not be quite as far off as some would like to think.
             Perhaps, the most obvious comparisons that can be made between Huxley's utopia and Modern American Society are all in relation to procreation. Modern society supports the concept of marriage between a man and a woman to produce offspring as a result of intercourse. Many view birth as a miraculous and joyous event always to be remembered. In Huxley's utopian community, families do not exist and if a woman was ever caught bearing a child she would be exiled. Instead, reproduction occurs in the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Center, which is a production factory that produces human beings.
             Huxley's utopia has taken artificial reproduction to the extreme by a method called the Bokanovsky Process. The Bokanovsky Process is a method where a human egg's normal development is halted and then buds to produce many identical eggs. "One egg, one embryo, one adult-normality. But a bokanovskified egg will bud, will proliferate, will divide. From eight to ninety-six buds, and every bud will grow into a perfectly formed embryo, and every embryo into a full-sized adult. Making ninety-six human beings grow where only one grew before. Progress." (Huxley, 3) Although modern society is not yet ready to produce babies in bottles, they are capable of growing them in test tubes. In America there is still much stem-cell research going on and many animals have been cloned now. Cloning and artificial reproduction fascinate many in America an...