a brave new world
Brave New World opens in a technically advanced future world. In the beginning of this book, we see theDirector of World Hatcheries lead the new hatchery students on a tour of a Conditioning Center in London where babies are produced in bottles and pre-sorted to determine which class level they will be born into. These class levels range from Alpha-plus, the highest level, to Epsilon-minus, the lowest. There are no parents, and babies are conditioned from birth to learn certain behaviors. All diseases have been eliminated, and when people are feeling down, they just take soma, a wonder drug. Also, people are conditioned from birth not to love one person, so there is no marriage and most people have many lovers. There is no God; instead, Henry Ford is worshipped as the god Ford. Another accomplishment of this society is the elimination of aging. Bernard Marx has unorthodox viewpoints and is outcast as an eccentric. He likes being alone, but in this society being alone is discouraged. His isolation from society has made him very different from everyone else. His only friend is Helmholtz Watson, an accomplished intellect who writes government propaganda. Watson has grown wary of life as it is, and his supervisors have him under c . . .
But "the Savage" (as John is called) is frightened by the new world he sees. He tries to "purify" himself from this awful society. Helmholtz and Bernard arrive, and Helmholtz helps John destroy the narcotic. Since society is still the same in the end, Huxley shows the same hopelessness that George Orwell showed in 1984. Bernard visits the Director for permission to go. Huxley did an excellent job of portraying the possible future. I liked this book because Huxley paid attention to detail and created a thoroughly engrossing literary masterpiece. They quickly find Linda among the Indians. Bernard takes the two back to London for study. The three are taken to see Mustapha Mond, an elder wise man. John believes he can save himself if he avoids this brave new world. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography** Brave New World opens in a technically advanced future world. They quickly find Linda among the Indians.
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