Topic > A Brave New World and Gattaca - 1219

Anti-humanity; people aren't even people. Could you imagine that kind of world? A world where people are invented and controlled? That kind of world is inhumane, and inhumanity is an interesting concept emphasized in the perfect/not so perfect world that Aldous Huxley describes in his classic novel, Brave New World, and what Andrew Niccol describes in his famous film Gattaca. In the stories presented by both of these writers, viewers and readers witness a dystopian world where the government controls the people and people are conditioned to like the social class established for them, be it low, middle, or high. Although these stories contain less violence because people are conditioned, this type of society is inhumane. Seeing that people should have the right to free will and should have the right to work for themselves despite the low starting level. However, socially stabilized is not what humans should be, we have to socialize with each other and learn from each other. In this kind of society, socializing with people of different classes is not common, and cross-class marriage is not permitted, or marriage is not permitted at all. However, given that with social stability, the government dominates people due to lack of free will, it is obvious that the purpose of both of these stories is to give viewers/readers the message that there is no perfect world, and that, even if our world is not perfect, it is certainly not the worst it could be. This message is evident in three perceivable approaches. One, when we see in Brave New World a character named John trying to persuade others to rebel. Two, when we see the discrimination between…half of the paper…is being done to them, and we decide it's time to take a stand and make a change. Let humanity rule! Today's society is not great, but humanity still rules. And after examining all the evidence you just read, isn't it obvious that the message both writers are trying to give is that perfection is impossible, and furthermore, we should keep society as it is or improve it using humane approaches? Huxley and Niccol demonstrate in their fictional stories that humanity cannot be changed and cannot be controlled; that's just what it is. The government cannot create a society, no one can, a society makes itself and all we can do is be part of it. However, the main purpose of these stories is that we, as human beings, must remain human, we must remain a society; and there are so many changes being made nowadays, but don't let them change our humanistic ways.