Huxley put everything he feared might happen into one book and make his characters live in that horrific world of totalitarianism and illusion of freedom, while either supporting the regime or opposing it and suffering greatly. Morality norms are blurred and twisted, family and long-lasting relationship is a shame to have and being a mother is the hardest insult a woman can experience. All of the population are brainwashed that it is better to get new stuff then find out how to fix the old one, sightseeing is bad for you don’t consume anything and doing sports always requires you to buy the gear. The World State’s main value is consumption.
People who still are born the natural way reside in the reservations, just like those for Indian people in the Huxleys time. Unborn kids undergo a special “treatment” to suit the group they were allocated to even before their birth.
Humans are bred to be the ones the government wants them to. Instead, whole generations are raised in an environment, controlled by specialists. Wonder what else these guys might have come up with? All kids are not born naturally. The whole humanity is divided into groups, starting with alpha and counting down the greek alphabet, having less recognition and valuation respectively. The society of those days seems to have a slightly different approach to labor organization and vision of how communities work. Ford himself is the god of progress and his personality is idolized and worshiped throughout the world. The society uses the creation of Ford T as the starting point of the new era.
The concept of Brave New World is based on a new, evolved society in half a millennium from the modern days. How did the author successfully combine allusion and allegory into a single mechanism that got the book to the top of the literary world? How can characters reflect nations and in-book actions refer to a much deeper sense than stated? Find out that and more on. Getting or keeping the job, being able to pay the fees and feed the children, those were the dreams of a regular worker at the time and Huxley’s novel managed to get deep into people’s minds simply through reflecting their expectations though in an imaginary fashion. Imagine yourself in the situation like this and you will understand people whose primary concern was the stability issue. Bear in mind, that early 30s in Britain were the home to Depression, when the economy looked more like a rollercoaster with a tendency to deteriorate and the unemployment rate was staggering. The book was quick to find popularity among the wide audience mainly due to including and resembling ideas of a better life shared within the community. It was written in 1931 and was presented to the world a year after. A regular name in the top reading lists, Brave New World is a novel by Aldous Huxley.
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