utiny, he wrote that, successful experiments are even now being made inthe cultivation of embryos of small mammals in vitro, and one of the mosthorrible of Mr. Huxleys predictions, the production of numerous low-gradeworkers of precisely identical genetic constitution from one egg, is perfectlypossible. Today there is significant advancements being made everyday in thefields of genetic engineering. Weve cloned a sheep, how soon before we clonehumans?Another very close to home ritual among the people of this utopia is theuse of drugs. The people of Brave New World use a drug called soma to clearthe mind of everything bad and make themselves feel happy. In his forward,Huxley also wrote about soma. He said, the equivalents of some... are probablynot more than three or four generations away. In current society there are manyescapes from reality that allow a person to be happy when theyre down, Prozacis just one of many drugs with this purpose. Prozac is advertised as somethingthat can solve any and all everyday blues. Many people in the world use Prozacin order to make them happy and to take away their problems, just the same waythe people of Brave New World do with soma.Through out this story, Huxley uses the practices these people do as anexample to show modern day readers by mirroring what our society couldbecome if were not careful. Huxley uses these comparisons to show that theBrave New World could happen. He writes about this also in his forward, Allthings considered it looks as though Utopia were far closer to us than anyone,only fifteen years ago, could have imagined....
