Unrepentant Scrooges, misguided teenage lovers channel the souls ofĪ more serious study of references to Brave New World reveals how Politicians are said to adopt Machiavellian tactics, police surveillanceĮvokes the shadow of Big Brother, selfish old folks appear as Technology-gone-wrong that it has become both a powerful and clichedĮxample of the ways in which literature can (mis)inform public debate.Īs often happens when a complex text is introduced into public debates,Īllusions to it often become predictable and trite, and of courseĬontemporary popular culture has a ready-to-use list of (mis)allusions: He taps into a rich series of popular allusions to a novel which isĬited so often and so automatically in discussions of When King refers to "this brave new world," "We are as gods, and we might as well get good at it" (seeĭ'Souza 1). Given genetically-enhanced abilities for memory and muscle strength,ĭollies and Dollies and Dollies, and techno-utopians who claim that "a brave new world." The "toybox" that Kingĭescribed is now filled with glowing rabbits and fish, mice that are It has become easy, far tooĮasy, to say that the world of biotechnology and designer babies will be Post-9/11, postanthrax, potentially post-human world, one in whichīio-engineered terrors are far from fantasy. It wasĪs if someone had put a large cherry bomb into a child's toyĪlmost thirty years after King's novel, we live in a But itĭidn't seem particularly brave to him, or particularly new. Now build from scratch: "The world, he thought, not according to Him and others to the Free Zone of Boulder, Colorado, where they will One of the survivors ponders all the rapid dislocations that have led Which 99% of Americans are wiped out by the accidental release of a In 1978 Stephen King published The Stand, a post-apocalypse epic in Bioethicist Max Mehlman, quoted in Joannie Schrof Fischer's The bottom line is that you can't avoid the brave new world. Leon Kass, Chair of the President's Council onīioethics, and author of "Preventing a Brave New World" Understanding what it means, and what its full human import is, both for Most people in these discussions are only interested in knowing:Īre you for it or are you against it? I'm interested mostly in APA style: The politics of allusion: Brave New World and The Debates About Biotechnologies.The politics of allusion: Brave New World and The Debates About Biotechnologies." Retrieved from 2006 Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Department of English 10 Nov. MLA style: "The politics of allusion: Brave New World and The Debates About Biotechnologies." The Free Library.
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