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Brave New World is a disutopian novel written by Aldous Huxley in 1932. When the book was published Aldous Huxley was already famous for some of his novels and nonfictional critical works. In previous works he was considered at his mature best in the studied scrutiny of the decadence of the modern society due to the disruption of harmony in the “whole” man. Brave New World marked a departure fromearlier fictional treatment of the dilemmas characterizing our time.
The astonishing novel Brave New World presents Aldous Huxley's vision of the future - of a world utterly transformed. Through the most efficient scientific and psychological engineering, people are genetically designed to be passive and therefore consistently useful to the ruling class.
Huxley portrays a modern man as aworship of the machine and the flesh. The novel anticipates developments in reproductive technology, eugenics and hypnopedia that combine to change society. In the novel we see that humanity is carefree, healthy, and technologically advanced. Warfare and poverty have been eliminated, all races are equal, and everyone is permanently happy. The irony is, however, that all of these things have beenachieved by eliminating many things as family, culture and traditions. This powerful work of speculative fiction sheds a blazing critical light on the present and is considered to be Huxley's most enduring masterpiece.
Brave New World Revisited written almost thirty years after Brave New World, is a non-fiction work in which Huxley considered whether the world had moved towards or away from hisvision of the future from the 1930s. He believed when he wrote the original novel that it was a reasonable guess as to where the world might go in the future, but in Brave New World Revisited he concluded that the world was becoming much more like Brave New World. It is a fascinating work in which Huxley uses his tremendous knowledge of human relations to compare the modern-day world with the propheticfantasy envisioned in Brave New World, including threats to humanity, such as overpopulation, propaganda, and chemical persuasion.
Brave New World begins in London, in the "year of Our Ford 632" (AD 2540 in the Gregorian Calendar). The entire planet is united as The World State, under a peaceful world government which has eliminated war, poverty, crime, and unhappiness by creating a homogenoushigh-tech society across Earth, based on the industrial principles of Henry Ford. Fordism forms the bedrock of the new society, gaining a semi-religious status. Society is rigidly divided into classes, their desires are pandered to by the government; all of their greatest longings are fulfilled in a society that offers unlimited sexual pleasure without the idea of marriage, a drug used toalleviate stress and send the user into a euphoric state of ecstasy. People are geared from an early age to accept the state of the world through hypnopedia, a sleep-teaching technique, and a manipulative genetic procedure that allows the government to extract multiple embryons from one to make thousands of the same looking individuals.
The aim of the state is “Happiness”, and “Community, Identity,Stability” are its motto.
One of the main heroes is Bernard Marx who belongs to the highest class of the society but he is different from other members of it. He dates Lenina Crowne, a young attractive woman. Althouh sometimes she finds Bernard strange she is eager to go with him on vacations to New Mexico. During their voyage they meet John and his mother Linda there, and Bernard decides to takethem to “his world”. There John attracts a lot of attention but Linda gets a lot of criticism. After Linda’s death Johns tries to convince the people to stop taking drugs. He also asks Mustafa Mond to let him go to the islands to be far away from people but Mond doesn’t let him and John starts looking for his own isolation. The last scene of Brave New World is when a couple of tourists find John...