Three eugenic dystopia: The Crimson Rivers, Brave New World, Gattaca

• Main Author: Gülay Halidi
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Turkish Bioethics Association 2018-02-01
• Series: Türkiye Biyoetik Dergisi
• Subjects: Eugenics; Ethics; Literature and Cinema
• Online Access: https://www.journalagent.com/z4/download_fulltext.asp?pdir=respircase&un=TJOB-47966

Eugenics is an area that sustained the aimed efforts to reach a biological evolution beyond the natural limits of plants and animals as well as human beings. Although, eugenics is destined to a challenging goal to oppose, it leads to discrimination in the long run, methods of eugenics cause violation of ethical values which eventually calls forththe rejection of eugenics in general. There are many artworks in literature and cinema that reflect this rejection. In this study, three of these artworks, which are set in a eugenicists dystopias, introduced and interpreted. The first and the second one are novels, the first one is Blood Red Rivers written by Jean-Christophe Grangé, the second one is Brave New World written by Aldous Huxley and the last one is a movie named Gattaca written and directed by Andrew Niccol.