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Fertilization In Brave New World

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Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World takes place primarily in the World State, a society where people are genetically engineered and conditioned from the time of fertilization in order to live a life in a predestined social caste. Social relationships like families and significant others do not exist, and everyone is conditioned to be happy. Social classes range from Alphas to Episilons, Alphas being the highest and most intelligent and Episilons being the lowest. The social class that a person ends up in is predetermined during test tube fertilization, with each generation of infants being created using techniques such as cloning and conditioning to further ensure their futures. Bernard Marx, an Alpha living in London, but his physical inferiority

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