"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.
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