As I began reading the first two chapters of Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, I have mix feeling about this book. I was quite fascinated about the idea of the London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre being able to produce many babies without having someone carrying the child. Also, the fact that they can even produce thousands at a time. To me, this is a scientific achievement of human cloning. Maybe we will be able to do this in the future of the earth. Well, maybe not thousands of them but maybe a dozen, and I know it may sound crazy.
However as I began reading more, I don’t like the idea of how the director wants the babies to be hating on flowers and books by shocking the babies lightly. Also, the fact that they have to shock the babies 200 times in order for them to not like flowers and books, I think that is some type of cruel behavior. I mean why hate on books and flowers, they never did anything wrong to the babies!
-Daphne Salgado
I also have mixed feelings about this book, but I think it was written for us to feel this way. If the author wanted us to enjoy every page, he wouldn't have written about babies being shocked and learning to despise flowers and books.
ReplyDeleteYou have an excellent point, it is cruel to shock babies, but I think that we are supposed to see the flaws within this society and learn from them.
Also, if someone wrote a book about our society, there would certainly be some things that aren't pleasant to read, but not everything in life is pleasant.
I agree with this statement because it does seem quite cruel to train newborns to hate things that are important to our culture today!
ReplyDeleteAlso, it does seem like a great achievement of science to be able to produce thousands of humans at a time.
But is it really better to produce babies like that compared to the natural way?
I too found it very surprising that they trained babies not to like flowers and books. In order to achieve these results they had to shock the babies each time they were near flowers or books. I thought this process was very cruel and unnecessary. Books are a valuable tool for a person because they built up new knowledge for that individual. I later became aware that they did this to the group because they didn’t want these babies to branch out and have new ideas.
ReplyDeleteI believe that it is kind of scary how they are now making babies in the factories, and it is a lot of them at once. I too did not like the way they would shock the babies in order for them not to like something. That is very inappropriate and mean to do this to very young, innocent babies.
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