Question #2_ Brave New World

*Are there are any current situations in the world that relate to the novel?

*What are they, and how do they relate?

*Does the novel shed any light on how current situations could be resolved or "fixed"?

There is a major current situation in the world that relates to the novel. These days, cloning has become one of the world’s greatest issues of debate. Scientists say that cloning is necessary to cure all the diseases and to extend human life expectancy; however, some peoples say that it is the act of depriving the human rights of the clones. Clones are being the living creatures that are born to sacrifice themselves for other living creatures. They have thoughts and rights. They feel pain. But we don’t care about them in some ways. In this novel Brave New World, they have set the social status by creating humans in different ways. Humans make babies scientifically, and according to different chemicals and conditions they give to the embryos, they decide whether that person will be an Alpha plus, Alpha, Alpha minus, Beta plus, Beta, Beta minus, Gamma, Delta, Epsilon, and Bokanovsky. They are called “civilized” people. They are made to love what they are born to do as if they are the robots. They like what they are made to like and they hate what they are made to hate. They are taught to live with chemical “soma” which has the effect of drugs of today. Out of all the perspectives, there are World Controllers who have created all this social function who aren’t being controlled by anything. There is only one group of people out of this society who have human rights, and they are called Savages. By looking at this, we can know how us humans are becoming dependent on technologies and machineries. Humans are becoming like living robots. The book doesn’t tell us “how” to fix these problems of today, but teaches us what is going on in different perspective. This novel tells us what a terrible thing it is for us to change the way we are changing and that we should avoid it somehow. Our futures should definitely not be the way the novel had foreshadowed.