"One egg, one embryo, one adult - normality. But a bokanovskified egg will bud, will proliferate, will divide... Making ninety-six human beings grow where only one grew before. Progress" (pg 6).
The parallelism and understatement early in Brave New World really express the importance of this distorted realities ethics. Not only are they manufacturing humans, but they are even predestining every embryo to what its future occupation should be. The "progress" has been unfolding for the past years, but through scientific break throughs, this process seems to be yielding greater results. A perfect reality of "community, identity, and stability" and unravelling as the world found ways to make one person develop nearly one hundred copies of themselves. The parallelism emphasizes the progress which the researchers are uncovering. It also focuses in on the unity of separation. While Bokanovsky's Process seems to be working in the present, it will be interesting to see the further implications of the current actions and seeming lack of precautions. The unity of parallelisms and understatement seem to contrast the feelings that the characters in the book have of control over the situation with the shock in my mind that they actually think this scheme will be successful.
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