Imagine a
world where humans are engineered to be perfectly built; tall enough, slim
enough, no diseases and have high IQs. Welcome to Gattaca. Most newborns in Gattaca a movie directed by Andrew Niccol are
genetically coded to be perfect. They are the best possible combination of
their parents’ genetic codes. The success of genetic engineering is to bring
humans to a utopia. This generation is designed to be intelligent and live
a long healthy life. They also further advance science which
solved many worldwide issues such as global warming by being able to engineer environmental-friendly transportations and technologies. Although the grass
always seems to be green, but over the fence lays the cold concrete pavements that leads to a small population of the imperfects. The imperfects are the ones that
are considered to be flawed. They are the ones who did not had the chance to be
genetically coded to be perfect, or were born natural. The DNA's of a newborn
determines its social status. The imperfects have no opportunities in life than
to serve the greater goods of society; the perfected population. People who are
genetically coded are more supreme, their opportunities are endless. This put
Gattaca's utopia image to a shame. Genetic engineering was designed in hope to
put society under a utopia, but instead trapped humanity under a dystopia
governed by genetic discrimination, unethical parental control and violence/crime.
Writer's Block:
I wanted to come up with at least three reasons that made Gattaca a dystopia. So far I only come up with: (1) Genetic Discrimination and (2) Unethical Parental Control, and (3) Violence/Crime. What do you think my essay might lack (besides that it is incomplete at the moment)?
Writer's Block:
I wanted to come up with at least three reasons that made Gattaca a dystopia. So far I only come up with: (1) Genetic Discrimination and (2) Unethical Parental Control, and (3) Violence/Crime. What do you think my essay might lack (besides that it is incomplete at the moment)?
Its hard to tell if your essay is lacking anything, since its a first draft and you did not go into details about what evidence you were going to present to support those three reasons that make that world a dystopia.
ReplyDeleteYou can add negative stereotype to the discrimination, like when the police were constantly looking into the invalid because he was an invalid even though his captain told him to look elsewhere. There is also how people now check other people's DNA sequence to determine if the other is a suitable partner. I was not sure if you had it in mind, but for the crime part, you can add how people were using borrowed ladders.
I think your introduction is very good and it doesnt lack a lot of details but I think you should add more views of the opposing argument to help make your views stronger and give examples.
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