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Brave New World: The Advancement of Science

Christy Campbell Mrs. Doig Eng OAC 2 16 May, 1996

When thinking of progress, most people think of advances in the
scientific fields, believing that most discoveries and technologies are
beneficial to society. Are these advances as beneficial as most people think?
In the novel Brave New World, the author Aldous Huxley, warns readers that
scientific advances can be a threat to society. This is particularly evident in
the fields of biology, technology and psychology. According to Huxley, "The
theme of Brave New World is not the advancement of science as such; it is the
advancement of science as it affects human individuals"(Huxley CLC 79 290).
One scientific advance of which Huxley warns readers of is that in
biology. In the setting of Brave New World, henceforth referred to as the
reservation, the mass production of humans is accomplished with the Bokanovsky
process. In this process, human beings are genetically engineered in......

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