"Brave New World"

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"Brave New World", by Aldous Huxley, depicts a world where despots have used scientific breakthroughs as a way to completely control society. The paper shows that while at first the book seems like an indictment of science, it actually is a warning against the misuse of science to exert power instead of pursuing knowledge. The paper shows how elements of contemporary world events are evident throughout the novel, despite the fact that it was written a decade before WWII.

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"In Brave New World, the government has co-opted science and uses it as a weapon to control the citizens of the world. They provide all the citizens with a powerful drug called "Soma" that blunts emotions and makes people compliant. They sterilize most women, but leave some fertile so they can remove their ovaries when new children need to be grown in test tubes. The purpose of sex is for personal pleasure only. The concept of love is abhorrent, and the worst insult one can hurl at another is "How's your mother?" implying that the person was not decanted from a glass bottle as normal people are born, but from the disgusting process of procreation, pregnancy and birth."

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