As of right now having read the first chapter of "Brave New World", I can begin to understand as to why some groups of people may find it offensive. Within the first few pages, the idea of growing generations of humans is introduced by using fertilization methods. These humans zre to be used for different purposes, but the message i recieved was that people are to be grown and conditioned to do certain tasks until they are no longer useful and they will be replaced. Now the idea of "test tube babies" will probably freak out alot of conservative idealistic people in the sense that it is wrong and perverted. Furthermore I wouldn't be surprised if the fact that these "test tube babies" are being conditioned to do the work of others will severely bother some people because these children will have no control over their lives because they will never have known anything else but what they have been conditioned and told to do. The idea of taking away the right of living a free life must horrofy some people. Although these are all interesting and argueable points, for me so far it's only a story with strange society and nothing i wouldn't allow others to read.
In this chapter it is also made clear that not only do they breed these people for what they will be doing their entire life, they breed them by the thousands. Now if this were to be happening in our society, I would feel a little scared as to what would become of the world. If scientists could breed people to do all the jobs in the world, then what would become of the natural born people? I don't even want to think about how I would compare with someone who was made to do my job. It seems like in the society in this novel is predetermined by those in control of the breeding of society.
Thursday, September 27, 2007
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