O wonder!How many goodly creatures are there here!How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world,That has such people in it.
Synopsis (from Alibris)
Far in the future, the World Controllers have created the ideal society. Through clever use of genetic engineering, brainwashing and recreational sex and drugs all its members are happy consumers. Bernard Marx seems alone harbouring an ill-defined longing to break free. A visit to one of the few remaining Savage Reservations where the old, imperfect life still continues, may be the cure for his distress.
Rants & Raves
I was fascinated with Huxley's drugged paradise world. Where everybody is conditioned to be absolutely comfortable with their job, social status & lifestyle. Where as soon as people felt uncomfortable, all they need is a gram of soma. It's an utopian world if you are a firm socialist & dystopian if you value individualism.
In George Orwell's 1984, people are controlled through inflicting pain while in this novel , people are controlled through inflicting pleasure. With Orwell, what we fear can ruin us, while, with Huxley, our desire can destroy us.
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