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Cloning In Aldous Huxley's Brave New World
This paper will compare how close the scientific advancements are in the book Brave New World to the real world we live in. Even though the book takes place in the future the scientific advancements that they have are truly not that advanced compared to what we have in our world. Cloning is the proses of making an identical copy of something and in this instance we are talking about humans. In the book Brave New World the cloning proses takes place in the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning center. In the book they don’t call it cloning but instead they call it the Bokanovsky’s process. The novel’s definition of the Bokanovsky’s Process is when they take one egg and split it into 96 eggs so that you will have 96 identical siblings. (Huxle 6). So far in the real world scientist have been able to produce a clone of a human embryo. It's unlikely that this clone could develop into a human, say the scientists, a team of biologists from the U.S. and Thailand. (Diep). So compared to the Brave new world we are really not too far behind in the book they are starting with a fertilized human egg (a human embryo) and then they split the egg …show more content…
In our society many people believe that cloning and genetic engineering are both morally wrong and that they both go against nature. But in the book having natural child birth is considered morally wrong and is looked down upon. As you can tell even though we are not very far behind from the scientific advancements of the Brave New World our societies are very different. The majority of the people in the real world are against human cloning, 57% of people that took a survey said that yes human cloning is very wrong (Debate.org) this is what some of the people said “Human Cloning is Very wrong!! We Should All Be Different!!” (Debate.org). But on the other hand human cloning is the only right way to produce children in the Brave New World because natural child birth is looked at as being

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