Predictions In Aldous Huxley's 'Brave New World'

In the novel “Brave New World”, by Aldous Huxley, he makes some predictions in 1931 that we today. In this novel we find that the predictions that are made are often related to modern day , 2013. There is many examples, but the four I will talk about today are how advertisements effect the way we view people and things, how birth control leads to promiscuity, how the use of medication is a substance for pain and how cloning is used. The predictions that Aldous Huxley makes in the novel “Brave New World”, is also seen in our society today. A prime example of one prediction that was made by Aldous in the novel “Brave New World” is that of sleep conditioning, which is related to modern day advertisements. In the novel, all the babies are …show more content…
This drug “makes all your pain and hurt go away”, they take it like it is no big deal. “Landing on the roof of Henry 's forty-story apartment house in Westminster, they went straight down to the dining-hall. There, in a loud and cheerful company, they ate an excellent meal. Soma was served with the coffee. Lenina took two half-gramme tablets and Henry three” (Huxley 78). When they took soma, it cleared their mind, where they were no longer worried about anything, "You don 't say so," said Lenina politely, not knowing in the least what the Warden had said, but taking her cue from his dramatic pause. When the Warden started booming, she had inconspicuously swallowed half a gramme of soma, with the result that she could now sit, serenely not listening, thinking of nothing at all, but with her large blue eyes fixed on the Warden 's face in an expression of rapt attention” (Huxley98). In today’s society alcohol and drugs are a very common way for people to “escape” from reality, much like the characters in “Brave New World” do with soma. The major difference is drugs today are not as easy to get as they are in the novel. According to a study done by Elsevier Inc, “74 percent of alcoholics will say that they drink to escape their problems, and emotions”, they also state that “ Escape drinkers displayed a significantly stronger attentional bias for alcohol-related inactive cues at longer presentation times (i.e., 2000 ms) …show more content…
In the novel, they clone the babies in Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre. In chapter one, he expresses how they will make multiple eggs from one egg. “One egg, one embryo, one adult-normality. But a bokanovskified egg will bud, will proliferate, will divide. From eight to ninety-six buds, and every bud will grow into a perfectly formed embryo, and every embryo into a full-sized adult. Making ninety-six human beings grow where only one grew before” (Huxley 17). In the novel, “Brave New World” Aldous made the prediction that in the New World Order there would be cloning. In today’s society we have been a witness to many types of cloning. The most common is cloning foods. In a journal recorded by the Journal of Agricultural Science, “In this study, a total 1737 bp ascorbate oxidase (AO) gene encoding a 578 amino acid protein was cloned from strawberries” (Yuanxiu). Although we are not yet cloning people, I think we are headed in that direction in the near