![]() Aldous Huxley conveys this message through the use of character, setting and stylistic devices. He shows individual identity to be an important concept to obtain a perfect society. A world without individual identity or humanity is bound to break. To insure a perfect world, everyone is technologically produced from one gamete which is divided into 96 identical Bokanovsky twins.Īldous Huxley however believes loss to individual identity or humanity to be flaw in the system. No one has their individual identity, everyone is a part of a distinct group in community which they believe to be their identity. ![]() Huxley obviously didn’t think she would last long.Distopya believes everyone should be identical to insure stability and community. It makes you truly wonder what Miranda would have made of the real world, once she had stepped off Prospero’s Island. John’s reactions to the World State are gradually more and more violent as he attempts to get the people there what shallow empty lives they lead.Īn amazing book, terrifying and, in these days of recreational drugs, mass manufacturing, and dependence on large cities, it still remains a great and unsettling mirror of society. As you can imagine this does not go well, as he’s as about as well equipped for living in such a world as Kong was for living in captivity. In a King Kong manner the boy, John “Savage” is brought into the perfect world that he’s heard so much about from his mother. While on a date there, Mustapha Mond, (who is an Alpha, but seems to be imperfect – doesn’t really fit in) – discovers Linda – an “insider” who was left outside 20 years ago and now she has a son. No-one marries, no-one gives birth.īut there IS an outside to this world, reservations where people live “natural” lives, giving birth and living off the land and are treated like a tourist attraction. Happiness is given out in the form of Soma, a recreational drug. Oh no, I don’t want to play with Delta children. They all wear green, and Delta children wear khaki. And then we are much better than the Gammas and Deltas. I’m really awfully glad I’m a Beta, because I don’t work so hard. I’m so glad I’m a Beta….Alpha children wear grey They work much harder than we do, because they’re so frightfully clever. ![]() Humans are graded from Alpha to Epsilon, and everyone’s happy to be the grade they are, due to successful brain washing. They are grown in vitro, raised in specialist nurseries and they are both “natured and nurtured” to fit into their place in society and the work they do. Huxley’s Brave New World is a faux-Utopia (The World State) where the populace is controlled. I first read this book at least 35 years ago and at the time it was very much “science fiction” but Huxley was well ahead of his time He took the hints of his own world (this was written in 1932) such as recreational drugs, sexual freedoms and mass manufacturing and did what good spec-fic writers do – pushed them into the future and imagined what the consequences of them would be. How many goodly creatures are there here! Title: A Brave New World Author: Aldous Huxley Publication Info: Harper Perennial Modern Classics 1998 ISBN: 0060929871 Genre: Top 100 Banned Books
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