![]() As with so many “required reading” standards, I don’t think I fully appreciated Brave New World when I read it for school. The class structure and predefined roles, the learning systems and government control, the Savage Reservations and birth control mandates, all are futuristic and yet scarily recognizable. ![]() Brave New World is about a dystopian society - but written at a time when the concept was new and shocking, a true cautionary tale. I reread Brave New World about five years ago, and was startled to see how prescient Aldous Huxley was about everything from assisted reproductive technologies to the rampant consumerism prominent in leisure and entertainment activities today. ![]() Does it stand the test of time? I certainly think so. A visit to one of the few remaining Savage Reservations where the old, imperfect life still continues, may be the cure for his distress…Ī fantasy of the future that sheds a blazing critical light on the present–considered to be Aldous Huxley’ s most enduring masterpiece.īrave New World has been a fixture on high school reading lists for decades now, alongside 1984, Animal Farm, and Lord of the Flies. Harbouring an unnatural desire for solitude, feeling only distaste for the endless pleasures of compulsory promiscuity, Bernard has an ill-defined longing to break free. From the Alpha-Plus mandarin class to the Epsilon-Minus Semi-Morons, designed to perform menial tasks, man is bred and educated to be blissfully content with his pre-destined role.īut, in the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre, Bernard Marx is unhappy. In laboratories worldwide, genetic science has brought the human race to perfection. Far in the future, the World Controllers have finally created the ideal society.
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