Linda is living on the reservation with her son, John. At the reservation they meet Linda, who also came on a visit and was left behind. Max and his girlfriend, the beautiful Lenina Crowne, take a vacation to New Mexico where they observer natural-born people (savages) who succumb to disease, old age, and practice religion.
Bernard Marx, a psychologist who has an inferiority complex is questioning society’s use of drugs to keep its citizens peaceful. London – 632 AF (After Ford), people are an engineered being, brought into the world through artificial womb and being indoctrinated into predetermined castes. I know it would have had a whole different impact on me, or no impact at all, at different stages of my life. This is the first time I read this book, and now I understand why people re-read it. in this age of consumerism, I can certainly see how one’s identify is directly pinned on the products they acquire (iPhones, Rolex, Hummer, etc.). Religious symbols are replaced with worship of a corporate entity (T instead of the cross, for Ford’s model-T). There’s plenty of sex to be had, and societal order which many aspire to – but there’s also no freedom. In this Brave New World, there’s no disease, or famine, or hunger, or thirst, or war. The culture is trivial, but the appetite for distraction, and destruction still exists. The citizenry is thus drowned in irrelevant things that they wouldn’t know the truth if it hit them on the head. In the world Huxley created, there are no banned books, because no one reads. Casual sex is encouraged, and the citizenry is constantly engaged in something (they don’t have cellphones or social media, but that’s a similar idea) just to keep them busy. The economic model encourages people to be wasteful (like our society of throw away and buy new). Subliminal messaging is conditioning the populace unknowingly (much like today’s huge disinformation campaigns).
A businessman is being worshiped in a cult like manner (Ford in this case), and society is bred for menial jobs. The story is intriguing, and emphatically gives the reader much to think about.Īldous Huxley dreams up a world which seems eerily familiar almost a decade later. It is certainly understandable how Brave New World by Aldous Huxley became a classic.
Huxley was an English author who wrote novels, poems, essays, scripts, and more. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley is a classic dystopian science-fiction novel published in 1932.
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