Morals In Brave New World Persuasive Essay

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On August 6th, 1945 the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, the long-lasting effects of this would be felt for years to come, 80,000 died immediately, and tens of thousands followed later on. This was after Aldous Huxley wrote his book The Brave New World, showing he was correct. This example of scientific advancement without moral consideration is shown many times throughout the book, he warns us of the dangers of scientific advancement without caring for people’s lives. But he also believes that if there were none, we would have the problem of control and that it all has to do with who has control of the product of the research. In the novel there are social castes that you are put in at random, the way they make the castes is by, messing with the embryo. As Bernard Foster says, …show more content…
This doesn’t seem like something anyone would want, everyone looking like the other person, and not being allowed to choose their lives. They make the people too unintelligent to understand what is wrong with them and mass produces them, allowing them to increase their production of consumer items. People lose their individuality in exchange for soulless conformity. All because of the lack of morals regarding the people due to their scientific discoveries. Although all of these are problems caused by science, if the people had morals they would not have allowed any of this to happen. If the world was allowed to freely practice science, they would have made it out of their little problems. For this reason, scientific studies were closely monitored and they were only allowed to do what they were told, which meant no discoveries as this would not bode well for the controllers. Mustapha Mond, one of the controllers of the world, says this himself, “But we can’t allow science to undo its good work. That’s why we so carefully limit the scope of its research”(Huxley
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