What I find most strange about Huxley's novel, it today it seems as if the many who are
required to read it in high school only see it as a warning of the dangers of technology, specifically
cloning. I do not think this is the case. Mr. Mund, himself says that they know science is dangerous,
and that it should be controlled, and that the people of Ford's time (US) wanted to pursue science
and knowledge to its end. But this I think was not the danger, but instead how science is used. In
the case of the novel it is used for power and control. But the novel is not about cloning, and the fear
of it but instead has a deeper meaning about the current society. Huxley wishes to point out our
flaws to maybe better us for the future, see where we might go, rather then close our eyes to where
we are. Now that the technology to clon exists people cry 'no' we do not want a Brave New
World, but I think they have missed the point. I think in a way Huxley did provide a way out,
he just did not let the savage choose it. For me the balance between Lunacy and Insanity would
have been the island. It is obvious that a Brave New World is a dystopia, but when
choosing the best of three evils, the island would have been my personal choice.
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