Sunday, July 15, 2012
Viviparous and Decanted humans in Brave New World
After reading the first two chapters of Huxley's Brave New World, I have noticed that this is a world in which they mass produce humans in factories. In fact, the ones that are making people in these facilities find it rather "strange" and "disgusting" that humans once were viviparous meaning bringing forth live young to have developed inside the body of the parent. As I was perplexed at their odd way of thinking, i read on to find that they felt it was right for babies to be decanted and inappropriate for babies to be viviparous; in contrast, we would feel it normal for babies to be birthed naturally then artificially. I believe that Huxley's purpose in allowing us to see their views on how life should be made is for us to comprehend in a deeper level that they truly are in a utopian world with a mindset that sees the way we live today as "dirty" or "disgusting".
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I completely agree with you. Huxley's novel has made it obvious that the term "utopia" is very subjective. The people in Brave New World seem to think they live in a perfect society, free of the problems that had previously plagued the world. In their eyes, our society would be the epitome of a dystopia since there is war, disease, famine, and unhappiness. On the other hand, many of us see their society as a failed attempt at creating a perfect civilization since the people have sacrificed individualism, emotion (besides happiness), freedom, and knowledge. This just goes to show that a perfect society is not based on any set guideline. Every person or community has their own idea of an ideal society, even in Brave New World, where all the people are conditioned to believe that they live in a stable perfect society.
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