In the book, Brave New World, there are many examples of prophecy. The first example of prophecy is cloning. In the book they were cloning up to 96 people that all looked identical. Today we have successfully cloned a sheep, and we are moving towards possibly cloning humans just like the book prophesied. The second example of prophecy is brainwashing and hypnotism. In the book they conditioned, or brainwashed, the infants and children to like and hate certain things for the purpose of increased consumption. Today, there are certain things that hypnotize us like commercials and billboards. More strongly there are hypnotist who hypnotize people in order to find out about someone's past and also to tried to cure their bad habits and phobias. This is just matter of opinion, but brainwashing is probably going on behind the scenes of our government. The final example of prophecy is genetically altering embryos. In the book they altered the embryos to make some not as smart as others. They also did it to put the people in different caste systems. They also, not mentioned in the book, prevented diseases from the altering of the emb
There were also a lot of examples of satire in the book. The first example of satire is the Solidarity Service. In the book they make fun of the present day clergy. It makes fun of the religious leaders that perform the religion good, but did not live the religion they teach. The second example of satire is below average people doing the dirty work. In the book they made people dumb during the embryo process in order for them to work the bad jobs. That makes fun of the present day situation that anyone that is not as smart as others shouldn't deserve a decent job. The book is saying that only dumb people should be dishwashers, garbage men, and fast food workers, but in fact there are smart people doing these jobs for extra money. I believe that if someone is not as smart as others are, but if they apply themselves they can get as good of a job as someone who is smarter than them. The last example of satire is the different beliefs. In this book they had stability without religion. They made fun of how people have comfort and faith in their beliefs. Aldous Huxley made the people in the believe that if everyone pledge their
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