Brave New World
Science is "... as dangerous as it's been beneficent." Science is very influential, and if we don't take control of it, then it will take control of us. Brave New World, is a book written upon this simple principle, and then takes a worse case scenario. Throughout the book Huxley (the author) shows us a society of which has been created upon pure science, a society without morals or individuality. But at the same time he shows us another society based without any science at all and shows us how much we do actually need science. In Brave New World, Huxley shows a society based upon six hundred odd years of science and its development with no moral conscience to keep it controlled. It is not based upon the evolution and development of science as we rely on continually in our society today, but upon past developments, and is no longer willing to keep on going. We can see that their society is bad. Science, when it had been released without any watchdog to keep an eye over it, in our opinion, has made their society into one that we woul
Huxley is not trying to tell us that we should totally avoid science, as it is bad - no, not at all. Neither is he trying to tell us that we should be totally dependent upon it and have our lives revolving around it. He feels and shows within the book that as the level of science increases, the morals of the people decrease. He has left an everlasting message to us that we need to find some kind of middle ground. Middle ground where we can have science and its fruitful benefits, but at he same time keeping good control over it, so that it doesn't take us over. So consequently, we can keep a decent and ethical grounding of moral behaviour and beliefs. d hate to be part of ourselves. The controller states "... we can't allow science to undo its own good work." (p226). The controller refers to what science has done as being "good", as this is basically to be expected of him, because he is the man who represents the society as a whole and takes the role of their leader. But we know that it isn't good work. The controller doesn't want scie
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Approximate Word count = 707
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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