"One egg, one embryo, one adult—normality. But a bokanovskified egg will bud, will proliferate, will divide. From eight to ninety-six buds, and every bud will grow into a perfectly formed embryo, and every embryo into a full-sized adult. Making ninety-six human beings grow where only one grew before. Progress."
-Director of Hatcheries, Chapter 1
This is my first quote, and I think it sets the tone for the book. It establishes the Bokanovsky process, used on lower castes to produce many identical siblings. The text-to-text connection I made is 1984. In the book, they talk about the horrible things they do, in the name of stability and progress, like they're perfectly justifiable. Killing people in a huge continental war in order to keep the Party in place? Perfectly fine, much like the last part of the quote. The majority of the population are clones, there are only 10 000 unique people in 2 000 000 000 bodies. This is basically a huge genocide, killing off so only 10 000 souls remain.
The text-to-world connection I made is, quite like 1984, when people justify something horrible because of one good thing. If that was true then, you could kill an entire country off in order to prevent rebellion, but then their''s no actual country to rebel. The blissful ignorance of the facts because of one overlying principle, ignorance is bliss. Clones in our world do not count as people, therefore there are only 10 000 people that control most of the world. What gives them the right to eliminate individuality? The text-to-self connection I made was eating genetically engineered foods, quite a common sight in our world. Eating a winter watermelon? Modified. Almost all apples you eat are genetically modified to taste better.
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