A Brave New World Analysis

For the Summer Assignment, I read Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World. Huxley was born into a wealthy family of scientists and wrote Brave New World in 1931, when the Great Depression was starting up and Hitler was rising to power, not to mention the fact that Huxley already had lived through WWI and lost his mother, his brother, and most of his eyesight, all in the same year[1]. Given all of these circumstances, he had plenty of reason to fear for the future. Brave New World is a model example of a society that is imposed to be perfect, but in truth is far from being so. Huxley creates his “brave new world” as an example of a “perfect dictatorship,” a society that basically is a prison of no walls, and prisoners, drawn to various forms of entertainment and consumerism, who would never think of leaving. This was accomplished, rather than continuing to let the populace reproduce normally at its leisure, by creating a system of industrialized procreation, predestination, and development procedures appropriate to the …show more content…
Within this reservation, the only regulated things are who gets in and out. When Bernard and Lenina visit the reservation, they meet a young man, John, and his mother, Linda. As it would turn out, Linda once had what would be that world’s equivalent of a relationship with the Director of Predestination of her hometown, who brought her to the Savage reservation in the first place. When John shows Bernard and Lenina to her, she immediately wants to go back with them, in her old age. John, who is a pariah among the tribe because he is the son of an outsider, also wishes to go to the “civilized” world so he can possibly make some friends. Arrangements were made, and both Linda and John were able to go back with Bernard and