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Brave New World5

Brave New World5 Brave New World is a science fiction novel that is about a society where happiness has been achieved. The story begins in London some 600 years into the future. The world is run by tenWorld Controllers. Reproduction has been removed from the womb and people are made in bottles by generic engineering. Each human is engineered and conditioned to predestined work. People are made into different levels of intelligence, and everyone belongs to one of five classes. These classes range from Alphas, who are most intelligent, to the Epsilons, who are dim-whitted and are produced to do the dirty jobs that nobody else wants to do. In this society happiness is carried out to extremes. It does it’s best to demolish any painful or undesirable emotions. That’s why the idea of a family was abolished, because it may bring feelings that are unhappy. Also, everyone is used to the idea of death as a natural process, because they were conditioned earlier to accept it as this. As if all this wasn’t enough already, soma was introduced into the society. Soma is a drug that calms people down and makes them forget about any unpleasant thoughts, without the bad side effects that today’s drugs may have. The story is set in 632 A.F. (After Ford), which begins with Lenina Crowne going to the dressing room after work. There she meets her friend Fanny Crowne (they have the same last name because only 10,000 last names are used in this society) and talks with her. There, they talk with each other about who is sleeping with who since in this society “everyone belongs to everyone else,” they have the right to sleep with whomever they want. Lenina says that she is currently with Henry Foster and has been for four months. Fanny nags Lenina about this and tells her to get another man. So Lenina decides to go with Bernard Marx who has invited her to go with him to a Savage Reservation, which is an uncivilized place filled with poverty, religion, feelings, and individualism. Bernard is an Alpha-Plus, which is considered to be the highest rank in intelligence. However, for an Alpha, he is short and physically inadequate. Others believe that he may have accidentally received a dose of alcohol in the production stage. He is different than others. Bernard is a bit odd, likes to stay independent and doesn’t have much luck with women. He has a friend named Helmholts Watson, who, unlike Bernard, is attractive, successful in sports, popular with the women and community activities. However, he is a bit dissatisfied with his work. Bernard takes Lenina to visit a Savage Reservation in New Mexico. While signing his papers to go, the Director tells him of a story of how he had gone there some 20 years earlier with a young woman who had disappeared and is presumed dead. Also, he threatens to deport Bernard to another facility in Iceland due to Bernard’s strangeness. At the reservation, they meet a young man named John. Bernard realizes that this is the son of the Director. Then they meet Linda, mother of John, she is the woman that was left behind by the director 20 years ago. Bernard gets permission from one of the World Controllers to bring them back to London. When they come back to London, the Director plans on sending Bernard away. However, he is greeted by his son and lover and is turned into an obscene joke (since for this society having a son or being a mother/father is an ultimate humiliation). It turns out that instead of Bernard being sent away, the Director himself resigns from humiliation. Bernard becomes the center of attention in London, because he is the guardian of John now, and everybody wants to meet this Savage. John is taken to see all the attractions of this new world and doesn’t like them, but he enjoys talking to Helmholtz and reading about Shakespeare (this wasn’t allowed, but he had gotten the book from his mother back at the Savage Reservation). The Savage falls in love with Lenina and Lenina wants to sleep with him. However, he refuses to do so, because he has taken the idea from Shakespeare that lovers should be pure. When she comes to his apartment and takes her clothes off, he throws her out and calls her a “strumpet” (prostitute), even though he wanted her badly. John then finds out that his mother is dying and goes to the hospital to see her. There, he meets children that were being taught that death is pleasant and is a natural process. The Savage is devastated by this and starts a riot in the hospital. Helmholtz joins him and helps him with the riot. Bernard, chickened out and stayed out of it. All three of them get arrested. In the Controller’s office they are confronted by the Controller, who explains a little bit more about this society and its beliefs. The conversation between them tells us that this society achieves its happiness by giving up science, art, religion, love, and other things that are important in the real world. Bernard is then sent to Iceland, and Helmholtz to the Falkland Islands. The Controller wants to keep John for experimenting, but John runs away and isolates himself from society, where he lives like a hermit. When the civilized people come to see him, he joins in with one of their religious dances called “orgy-porgy”. The next day when he wakes up, he commits suicide. The story’s point of view is the third person, omniscient. This way, the reader can know what’s going on in all the characters’ minds. Huxley’s writing style is fairly easy to read and follow, it’s his complicated ideas that makes the reader think. It is obvious that he had been educated at a very good place because of his brilliantly presented ideas and the use of vocabulary words. Huxley was very creative with the names of the characters. He turned Our Lord into Our Ford (Ford is the God of this society). Also, other names like Bernard Marx comes from Karl Marx, who came up with the theory of socialism. The name, Benito Hoover was taken from President Hoover of the United States. Reading this book felt like I was on a different planet, which was an interesting experience. Bibliography:

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