n or art. The directors of this new world haveattempted to make a Utopia in which people are predestined to fit into their "their inescapablesocial destiny." They feel that this will be better for the people because they will not try forgreater things and fail. The new world uses science to "stabilize" society by removing anypossibility of free will. They train the people like dogs with “Neo-Pavlovian conditioning” aschildren. There attempts at a Utopia fail completely and result in total disaster or Dystopia. Thepopulation is addicted to a drug that numbs them to the poor quality of life they are living. Noone is free or sacred and they have the lives of slaves. To define Utopia, the world in Brave NewWorld a definition of contrast.Brave New World is not alone in failed Utopian Society’s. Fahrenheit 451, The Handmaid's tale, the movies The Beach and Gattica. In Gattica, science as formed an entirely newminority. These people are those that are not genetically enhanced at birth. Parents have theability to chose the characteristics of their children. Vincent is a “god child” that has a dream ofbeing in space but is not allowed to do so because he isn’t genetically up to it. This alleged utopiathat they have formed is not one at all with such prevalent discrimination. In Gattica the attemptat utopia is made in a different way, instead of creating the perfect place to live for people, theycreate the perfect people to live in the place. In the scene where Vincent and Irene are at thepiano concert, the pianist throws his gloves into the crowd. Vincent finds that the gloves have 6fingers on each hand. Irene laughs at the fact that he didn’t know that the piece of music they justheard could only be played by a 12 fingered man. This shot at the God Child shows that thisworld is not a Utopia at all for those who are less than perfect.Many Utopias have been attempted in literature. All h...
