... are slowly moving in that direction. Our society has succeeded in creating the almost perfect "status quo", but unlike the Brave New World society, ours is maintained by natural forces. In Brave New World the "state" uses techniques such as depriving fetus" from oxygen, purposely giving them Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, and then ... to accept, and maintain the traditions and societal levels placed on them by friend, family, and most influentially; media. If you analyze both Brave New World, and our society's attempts to place groups of people into different social classes, ours proves to be n...

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... of power amongst the many nations. Aldous Huxley appears to have developed a significant alternative to this problem. In his novel Brave New World, Huxley portrays a society in which all beings are genetically engineered into different social classes. This eliminates the prejudices and jealousies ... would argue in favor of religion whereas others would argue for the sake of the country and its reputation with the rest of the world or perhaps from an ethical standpoint. These arguments may be extremely convincing in either direction, therefore making the question of gene modification tha...

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