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A 9 page paper on Aldous Huxley's 1932 futuristic novel. The paper discusses Huxley's view that science and technology should serve man, not the other way around, and society should never have to adapt itself to an ideology that does not serve its spiritual as well as its physical and social needs. No sources.
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in man himself. He feared that unbridled experimentation in science and technology was inherently dangerous, and that the misuse of knowledge can have dire consequences. He also feared that people
would become so content to have all their diseases cured and their problems eliminated that they would allow their basic freedoms eliminated as well. Brave New World offers a picture
of the world as it might become if man allows science to rule him rather than man ruling science. The beginning of the novel describes life in the new World
State through the eyes of a group of students, who are touring the "Central London Hatching and Conditioning Centre," to see the infants and children -- something they would normally
never encounter during the normal course of their lives. In the midst of their tour, one of the ten World Controllers happens to drop into the Hatching and Conditioning Centre.
His name is Mustapha Mond, and he is regarded with some alarm by the Director of Hatching and Conditioning because he has read all the forbidden books; he assures the
D.H.C. that "I wont corrupt them" by telling the students the history of what life was like in the unenlightened past -- the times in which Huxleys readers actually live.
This allows us, the readers, to see how far science has taken the citizens of the World State from our own values, hopes and dreams. Mustapha Mond is
an intelligent, competent, nice man, like many people we meet in our own lives. He tells the young students about many barbaric practices of the past: actually living in a
squalid home with ones birth parents and their other offspring; suckling milk from a mothers breast "like a cat"; lifetime monogamy. The torturous emotional rollercoasters such lifestyles involve! The students
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