Tasmin Perry
ENGL 101-0768
Dr. Vasileiou
Essay #1
10/3/12
The Costs of Living
We all dream of a life based on a Utopian
society. We hope that our lives will exceed limits and our children will be
perfect. But what length would a person go to ensure this perfect life? I feel
the people in the movie Gattaca are living in a dream world. For a parent to be
able to choose their child’s destiny before they are even born seems ungodly in
my opinion. It comes to my attention that in this world overall you’ll know how
your life would turn out just by the make-up of your DNA. It is not fair that
if someone wasn’t genetically engineered to be perfect their success rate would
be very low and they would lose hope to pursue their dreams. So taking into
consideration how much I am against genetically engineering ones child, I feel
the world presented in Gattaca is a portrayed as Dystopia.
To
support my position I would like to bring up three key points to help my
argument. To any parent it would seem the greatest advantage to ensure your
child a good life. Especially if you can choose their fate before they are
born. But what if you are in the position where you cannot afford to pay for
the process of having your child genetically engineered, or if the child was
not planned. The child would grow to be weak and not have as many aspirations
as a child that was made to succeed. They would constantly struggle with the
stigma of not being good enough.
My
next point would be if majority of people in the society are perfect, No one
would find the need to work hard. There wouldn’t be any struggle or hard
bridges to cross if everything was basically handled to you. From firsthand
experience and throughout history I have noticed that a person who has a story
behind why they work so hard always seem to succeed the most. It also build
character to not be able to take things for granted.
My question is, what do you think about my thesis statement? do you feel I could add or take away anything?
I believe your thesis statement overall is, that Gattaca is a Dystopian society portrayed in the film. The way you stated the thesis is very detailed and very well written.
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