![]() A book doesn't need to be really exciting, but it should give you a reason to read on and be interesting, and Brave New World didn't do that. A book with interpretive meaning like this should have a good balance between meaning and plot. I think Huxley was a good enough writer in terms of style and word choice, and I like the ideas that Brave New World has (how many people disregard whats going on in the world as long as they're happy, how conformity is prevalent in our society, etc), but for those reasons above, I didn't like the book. And even if you do empathize with Bernard, he eventually leaves the story completely and isn't mentioned again. Adding to that, the fact that it has multiple protagonists, to me, is detrimental because it doesn't give you time to empathize with either character. It's extremely dry and the book never picks up and never really gives you a reason to read on. This book partly inspired 1984.Īnyways, while that idea seems really interesting to me, it's executed very poorly. Then eventually Bernard gets fizzled out of the story and focuses on John who hates this world and it's people and (spoiler) kills himself. He goes to this reserve (I think somewhere near or in Arizona) and meets this guy named John who he brings back to London, where the story is set. It follows this guy named Bernard Marx who is an Alpha (supposed to be intelligent, attractive, hardworking and social) but something went wrong and he turned out to be a cynical outcast. Anybody who isn't constantly in social situations and having sex is considered an outcast and that idea is extremely foreign to them. Read a character analysis of Bernard Marx, plot summary, and important quotes. The book heavily influenced George Orwell’s 1984 and science-fiction in general. Borrowing from The Tempest, Huxley imagines a genetically engineered future where life is pain-free but meaningless. They filter what information gets through to the people so people stay ignorant to important things and just focus on feeling good. Brave New World is Aldous Huxley’s 1932 dystopian novel. They distribute this drug called Soma and encourage people to have as much sex as possible as a means of social conditioning, so people just focus their lives on being happy and not giving a shit about real issues. It's basically this dystopian novel where people are genetically modified into different social classes (alpha through epsilon) and the government wants to control people mainly through pleasure. I don't know how many of you have read this, but it's a pretty well-acclaimed book.
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