es social stability by having dozens of identical twins to work, eat and live together, where there would be no brawls or conflicts. As the Director of Hatchery and Conditioning says, "Bokanovsky’s Process is one of the major instruments of social stability" (Huxley, 5). While the Bokanovsky Process outlined in Huxley’s novel may have seemed improbable when he wrote the novel in 1932, the scientific advances in genetic engineering have taken a giant leap. In "July 1996, a team of Scottish scientists produced the first live birth of a healthy sheep cloned from an adult mammal". The cloning of the citizens forms a standardized population with a lack of social freedom and no liberty to shape their own paths of life. The cloned sheep, Dolly, brings the modern world one step closer to Huxley’s eugenic state.The establishment of a social caste system, where everyone belongs to a certain group and obtains certain powers, limits citizens to mingle only with those of their own caste and produces a set of prejudice between citizens. The Alpha and Beta citizens live in small houses and apartments in the suburbs surrounding the city, while the Gammas, Deltas and Epsilons stay in "huge lower-caste barracks" (Huxley, 64) inside the city. This classification of citizens exists even in the modern world, where the well-to-do businesspeople live in higher-class suburbs while the lower class factory workers huddle in cramped downtown apartments. The social caste system, along with the conditioning of the citizens, creates prejudice among those who represent difference. Bernard Marx, an Alpha citizen, has a physical deficiency. He is short and small, "eight centimeters short of the standard Alpha height" (Huxley, 57), and is often neglected for his deformed figure. While Marx is sharing an elevator with two coworkers, "Henry Foster and the Assistant Director of Predestination rather pointedly turned their backs on Bernard Marx" (Huxley, 2...
