Brave New World, Chapter 8 - 'Information Memorization'

"What are chemical? he would ask. Oh, stuff like magnesium salts, and alcohol for keeping the Deltas and Epsilons small and backward, and calcium carbonate for bones, and all that sort of thing. But how do you make chemicals, Linda? Where do they come from? Well, I don't know.You get them out of bottles. And when the bottles are empty, you send up to the Chemical Store for more. It's the Chemical Store people who make them, I suppose. Or else they send to the factory for them. I don't know, I never did any chemistry. My job was always with the embryos" (Huxley 130).

In arguing on both sides of how scientific and technological advancement benefits humanity is demonstrated when John asks his mother Linda, some questions he had after reading the she gave him to improve his reading which was on the conditioning of embryos. But since Linda had grown up in the brave new world could not give John any straight answers, she only answered him with only the things she knew from the job she had as a Beta in the Fertilizing Room. The positive effects of only knowing the information that was sleep taught to you for you needed to know for your future job is that when someone becomes of the age to start working they would not have to look at multiple different positions to apply for to get a job, they would automatically have a job waiting for them because of the information thy already know for that position. The negative effects to this is that when someone asked them questions about there job like John did with Linda asking about where chemicals come from, that person would most unlikely be able to answer it correctly because they only know the information that was sleep taught to them for the potential jobs they would go on to do. 

Brave New World, Chapter 7 - 'Things Are Not as They Seem'

"We preserve them from diseases. We keep their internal secretions artificially balanced at a youthful equilibrium. We don't permit their magnesium-calcium ratio to fall below what it was at thirty. We give them transfusion of young blood. We keep their metabolism permanently stimulated. So, of course, they don't look like that. Partly, he added, because most of them die long before they reach this old creature's age. Youth almost unimpaired till sixty, and then, crack! the end" (Huxley 111).

In arguing on both sides of how scientific and technological advancement benefits humanity is demonstrated when Lenina and Bernard are touring around a reservation in New Mexico where people actually get married, give birth to children, and physically age older than thirty years. Lenina saw an older man and asked why he looked so bad and Bernard responded because he was old. But Lenina did not understand the concept of ageing so Bernard explained what their society does to not look like the older man. The positive effects to having a scientific advancement to allow the people in the Brave New World society to not physically age past thirty and being unable to get sick is that for one they can forever look beautiful or handsome until they day that they die and they don't have to worry about getting some type of disease transmitted by others in their society. The negative effects to these scientific advancements is that even though the children born in the hatchery do not have nor an get a disease from the people around them they could still get a disease from the people they are around if they go somewhere that people do not get preserved from diseases and spread throughout their society and could eventually kill off the society

Brave New World, Chapter 6 - 'We Do Not Live in a Free World'

"Don't you wish you were free, Lenina? I don't know what you mean. I am free. Free to have the most wonderful time. Everybody's happy nowadays. He laughed, yes, everybody's happy nowadays. We begin giving the children that at five. but wouldn't you like to be free to be happy in some other way, Lenina? In your own, way, for example; not in everybody else's way" (Huxley 91).


In arguing on both sides of how scientific and technological advancement benefit humanity is demonstrated when Bernard and Lenina were talking on their date and he brings up how he wishes that they were free to do what they would like for example get married to someone you love instead of having multiple partners and give birth to a child instead of a child that is born with different genetic advancements and not know who their parents are. The positive side to being brought up in a world where women are infertile, children have no parents, and automatically being put into a specific social class is that people would not have to have any emotional attachment to someone. In the Brave New World society the citizens are almost free to do what they want like, they can have intercourse with as many different partners as they would like and they would not get judged for it. Although they are pretty much free to do what they want the citizens still have certain things that they are not allowed to do such as, getting emotionally attached to someone like, when Lenina wanted to only be with Henry Foster and women cannot give birth to a child, they are all born to be infertile so that children are only born in a hatchery. 

Brave New World, Chapter 5 - 'Someone Will Remember'

"She saw again the beam of moonlight, the row of small white beds; heard once more the soft, soft voice that said (the words were there, unforgotten, unforgettable after so many night-long repetitions): Every one works for every one else. We can't do without any one. Even Epsilons are useful. We couldn't do without Epsilons. Every one works for every one else. We can't do without any one... Lenina remembered her first shock of fear and surprise; her speculations through half a wakeful hour; and then, under the influence of those endless repetitions, the gradual soothing of her mind, the soothing, and smoothing, the stealthy creeping of sleep..." (Huxley 74).

In arguing on both sides of how scientific and technological advancement benefit humanity is demonstrated when Lenina remembers that when she was younger she heard the recording of the voice that would teach children in their sleep to act and do certain things but, to Lenina it was a whisper that she felt haunted her sleep. The positive effects of having a recorded voice that children will listen and learn from in their sleep is that these children would be able to memorize certain facts that they should either know in life, for school, or even for future jobs. The negative effects of having children listen to a recorded voice in their sleep is that like Lenina they could wake-up from their sleep when they are not supposed to and start to think that there may be something going on in the world they live in and could start to think and do things differently than what the society that they live in would like them to believe. 

Brave New World, Chapter 4 - 'Size Matters'

"Bernard's physique was hardly better than that of the average Gamma. He stood eight centrimetres short of the standard Alpha height and was slender in propprtion... Indeed, a hypnopaedic prejudice in favor of size was universal. Hence the laughter of the women to whom he made proposals, the practical joking of his equals among the men. The mockery made him feel an outsider; and feeling an outsider he behaved like one, which increased the prejudice against him and intensified the contempt and hostility aroused by his physical defects. Which in turn increased his sense of being alien and alone" (Huxley 64-65).

In arguing on both sides of how scientific and technological advancement benefit humanity is demonstrated with how the Brave New World society there are multiple different castes such as the Alphas, Gammas, Deltas, and Epsilons. Bernard Marx's is a part of the Alpha caste but, he is different from most of the Alpha's he is shorter than most of them so the other Alpha's treat him differently because he is not like the rest of them and this is because the rumor is that when he was in the decanting room they accidentally put alcohol in his jar mistaking him for being a Gamma. The positive effects of having people who are around the same height and share the same characteristics is that people will have more in common with others, and will not have a difficult time, like in our society, to find friends. The negative effects to having people who should be around the same height and share the same characteristics is that someone could have what happened to Bernard in the decanting room and turn out different from the others in their caste system, which will make their peers treat them differently and make them feel like outsiders.  

Brave New World, Chapter 3 - 'Women Shall Not Conceive'

"Dr. Wells advised me to have a Pregnancy Substitute. But, my dear, you're only nineteen. The first Pregnancy Substitute isn't compulsory till twenty-one. I know, dear. But some people are better if they begin earlier. Dr. Wells told me that brunettes with wide pelvises, like me, out to have their first Pregnancy Substitute at seventeen.So I'm really two years late, not two years early. She opened the door of her locker and pointed to the row of boxes and labelled phials on the upper shelf" (Huxley 38).

In arguing on both sides of how scientific and technological advancement benefit humanity is demonstrated in this part of the book when a woman named Fanny talks to her friend Lenina about how she will start her Pregnancy Substitute, (which is similar to birth control), at a young age because Dr. Wells told her that women like Fanny who have wide pelvises need to start the Pregnancy Substitute at an earlier age. The positive side of taking this Pregnancy Substitute is the sexually active young adult women will not have to worry about getting unexpectedly pregnant if they were fertile, and they would not have to worry about having an extra expense to pay by raising a child on their own. The negative side to taking this Pregnancy Substitute is after a woman takes it for three months they would not have a chance to conceive a child if they wanted to for three to four years because that is how long the substitute allows women to stay infertile before they need to retake it again.   

Brave New World, Chapter 2 - 'My Mind is Not My Own'

"We can electrify that whole strip of floor, bawled the Director in explanation. But that's enough, he signaled to the nurse. The explosions ceased, the bells stopped ringing, the shriek of the siren died down from tone to tone into silence. The stiffly twitching bodies relaxed, and what had become the sob and yelp of infant maniacs broadened out once more into a normal howl of ordinary terror. Offer the the flowers and the books again. The nurses obeyed; but at the approach of the roses, at the mere sight of those gaily-coloured images of pussy and cock-a-doodle-doo and baa-baa black sheep, the infants shrank away in horror; the volume of their howling suddenly increased" (Huxley 21).

In arguing on both sides of how scientific and technological advancement benefit humanity is demonstrated in this passage when the Director ordered the nurses to electrify the children from favoring flowers and books to having a strong dislike towards them. The positive side to electrify children at a young age to either favor a certain things such as favoring a certain genre of music or to dislike things such as having a string dislike for drinking alcohol or any type of drug. The negative side to electrify children to have a strong dislike towards something can be horrible because when you electrify a child's brain to dislike a certain group of people such as the Deltas in the novel, it can cause serious harm towards others if the scientists are not careful. In the past the white race developed a group known as the KKK that was for people who hated the African Americans and the KKK would set the African Americans houses down with them in it, and many other things. But the children who grew up around that kind of attitude to dislike a certain race of people they would have it already set in their brain to not like that minority race and may not have their own opinion.

Brave New World, Chapter 1 - 'More Identical Twins is Beneficial to Society'

"Still leaning against the incubators he gave them, while the pencils scurried illegibly across the pages, a brief description of the modern fertilizing process; spoke first, of  course, of its surgical introduction-"the operation undergone voluntarily for the good of Society, not to mention the fact that it carries a bonus amounting to six months' salary"; continued with some account of the technique for preserving the excised ovary alive and actively developing" (Huxley 5).

In arguing on both sides of how scientific and technological advancement benefit humanity is demonstrated in the passage when the Director explained to the new students of what they do at the facility to increase the human population. The director first off lets the students know that the eggs have been taken willing by women who wanted to donate their eggs and that they even get paid for their willingness to do so. The Centre uses the eggs to increase the number of embryos that can be fertilized from them eggs than just getting one human life. Having this technology can be good for society because we would not have to worry about the population being too big or too small. But this technology can also have some consequences such as since there would be about ninety-six identical twins born from these embryos would allow more people to get away with serious crimes because the police would not know for sure which twin could have done the crime if there were to be ninety six of them.