The time of BNW and Gattaca is the advancement of science as it affects individuals. The only scientific advances are those involving the application to human beings of the results of future research in biology. It is only by means of the sciences of life that the quality of life can be radically changed (Huxley, xx)
unease about modern science and technology about the direction humanity is headed towards is evoked by ‘‘brave new world.’’ Much of the debate over science and technology has centered on the question of how to avoid such a "brave new world" (
mass production of people, who are shaped to fill their social caste roles as Alphas, Betas, Gammas, Deltas, or Epsilons. Some people have been cloned from the same fertilized egg, so that they are genetically identical.
view of society remains a pessimistic one, the tale of Bernard, Helmholz, and the Savage's confrontation with and defeat by authority provides the kind of backrone for Huxley's satiric vision of the world of the future (Bloom, 77)
Mustapha Mond's principal beliefs... disavowal of the value of the individual ego
Huxley's associated liberalism with the old romanticism and its stress on individuality (Bloom. 79)
He [Huxley] sees a five-tiered caste system occasioned through the perfection of biogenetic engineering... Every man is created biologically equal to all other in his caste. (Bloom, 88). On the contrary, individuals of the two castes in Gattaca are not biologically equal to each other. Every human being has their parent's genes.
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