BRAVE NEW WORLD BY ALDOUS HUXLEY

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley



Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Introduction

The novel “Brave New World” was written by Aldous Huxley, in 1931 and was published in 1932. The novel looks forward towards the evolution of reproductive technology, and its effects to change the society. This story was set in London of AD 2540 (632 A.F. in the book). The writer explains that future society depicts the concept of ideals that form the basis of futurology (Huxley, 1998).

Summary

This story was based on the study of Central London Hatchery and conditioning center and explains the role of Social conditioning and artificial breeding of the world. At the start, of the novel, the Director of the Centre (D.H.C.) introduces the reader, new students on the tour and facilities of the institutions as well as its operations. The biological tour of the assembly line related to the test tube births as the main focus.

In the beginning, they were shown the fertilizing room, the Social Predestination Room, then the bottling room and in the end the Decanting Room. Besides this, the D.H.C kept on explaining different processes and operations of the plants. Out of them the most prominent was the Bokanovsky's Process was the first as the D.H.C explained it: “As a process in which one fertilized egg was produced from 8 to 96 "buds" that will produce human beings in the end who will be identically same (Huxley, 1998).

The conditioning explained in the process is of the view that, people should accept their destiny, which is restrained, to them and we cannot escape destiny. We should be clear about everything which will happen. They should have faith in their destiny. Destiny occurs within the caste system, which was based on the social hierarchy as ranging from traits such as handsome intelligent. The writer has also discussed the Alpha pulses which extend to the working drone Epsilons.

The chapter at the end also introduces the workers who are working in this institution. Henry Foster plays a minor character in the story. Lenina Crown plays the leading character in the story that plays the prominent role in changing views of the writer (Trotter, 1895).

Analysis

At first glance of dystopia, influenced the reader in the way the writer has portrayed different characters of the book and how do they influence the readers. What views were generated after reading the book and how it would affect the thinking? Huxley, at first sheds his knowledge regarding the futuristic world and its significance as it explains the motto of “identity, community and stability”. All the management, planning, and conditioning of the world state are exclusive to these 3 principles.

The world state was connected to meet the end. Community plays a pivotal role in affecting the minds of the people. The Fordian world as explained in the first chapter is less threatening and disturbing as compared to Orwell's 1984. The reader depicts here that real happiness masks a dark ...