Aldous Huxley wrote Brave New World in 1931. It is about a futuristic dystopia in which Huxley exposes the corruption and imperfection of the "perfect world." It compares to the real world in that it bears similarities to real events in world history. Huxley tries to convey what might happen if the government could have total control over individuals' lives.
             In Brave New World, Huxley deals with two themes: isolation and a decaying moral order. In fact, the novel is an example of a dystopia, a utopia in reverse. Huxley clearly describes a disappointed world that has become dehumanized by scientific advancement. The novel opens in the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre. The year is a.f. 632, or 632 years "after Ford" (Huxley, A. 2). The Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning is giving a group of students a tour of a factory that produces human beings and conditions them for what their roles in the World State will be. He explains to them that human beings no longer produce living offspring. The Hatchery destines each fetus for a particular caste in the World State. The five castes are Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, and Epsilon. The fetuses undergo different treatments depending on their castes: oxygen deprivation and alcohol treatment guarantee the lower intelligence and smaller size of members of the three lower castes. The process aims to make individuals accept and even like their unavoidable social destiny (Huxley, A. 9).
             By the time Huxley writes Brave New World, many of the advances described in the book had already been introduced. The cultivation of embryos of small mammals in vitro and the cloning of parasitic insects had already been accomplished in the scientific community by the time Huxley wrote the novel. Decanting is the name given to the completion of the artificial and mechanical stimulation of the embryo resulting in what we would call birth - an independent existence. Huxley details this ...