Book Review: Brave New World
Since its publication in 1932, Brave New World has been considered by many to be Aldous Huxley's greatest work. Most people think it is his only work but it is not. In that time this novel has been praised and condemned, dismissed and welcomed, a source of controversy, a subject for sermons, and required reading for many high school students and even college students. It has had twenty-seven printings in the United States. As of now three generations have read and discussed it. Aldous Huxley is a writer of science fiction, a writer of social commentary, a writer with prophetic vision, a writer with a tremendous depth of ideas, and a writer of satire. Brave New World is a masterpiece of science fiction. Huxley has used his imagination greatly in employing existing scientific facts and theories to produce a classic. Few writers of science fiction have equaled Huxley's ability to make the unbelievable seem believable and to make the improbable seem probable. His own interest in science, its use and misuse, its peril and its promise, contributed to the accuracy of his presentation and to the horror of his envisioned utopia. In A.F. 632, which is 632 years After Ford released the Model T, there is a World Society. People
"In fact," said Mustapha Mond, "you're claiming the right to be unhappy." "But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, and I want goodness. I want sin." People are also made in different grades of intelligence. Bernard Marx is quite intelligent, but by an error in the Predestination Center he stayed small and weak. In this world this is unusual. Because of that he's and outcast, and is also often alone. Bernard has his own vision of Society. He will be displaced to Iceland. But before he's officially replaced he meets a pretty girl called Lenina Crowne. He takes her to a Savage Reservation where they keep all the people that still believe in the old ways and haven't conformed to the world society. There, they meet John and his mother. They take them back to the "brave new world". John falls in love with Lenina. She wants to make love to him very soon; it is normal in her society. But John isn't used to that, he hits her and calls her a stumpet. John's mother dies of too much soma, a drug that is widely manufactured to keep people happy. John is furious with the "brave new world". He tries to make a riot. John and a friend are brought to Iceland. John isolates himself from the society, and starts living on his own, he wants to depend on nothing and no one. The press discovers and they chase him. John ends up committing suicide. I believe some of what Huxley's novel is saying can be seen today. We have all turned into sheep living our lives according to the norms of society. If you step out of those norms you are shunned. Promiscuity in sexual matters has come in leaps and bounds from when t
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