Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley
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Author: Aldous HuxleyEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2006-10-17
ISBN: 0060850523
Number of pages: 288
Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
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Book Review: "the secret of happiness and virtue--liking what you've got to do"
Summary: 4 Stars
Due to years of hypnopedia, the two million inhabitants of the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre: Alphas, Betas, Gammas, Deltas and Epsilons, work contentedly day after day and year after year at the job for which they have been conditioned. Beyond the brainwashing, the sole motivator for their uncomplaining efforts is a psychotropic drug called Soma. But one citizen, Bernard Marx, an Alpha Plus psychologist (top of the pecking order) and hypnopedia expert during the time in which Brave New World is set, 632 A.F. (in the year of Our Ford), is feeling disillusioned. His pat reply to the sunny phrases (like (p 50) "Everybody's happy now,") spewed regularly by members of the brainwashed masses, is that particular mantra's conditioning regime (e.g. (p 62) "Two hundred repetitions, twice a week from fourteen to sixteen and a half"). Wanting to establish a nontraditional relationship with a woman "known" to many, Lenina Crowne, he entices her with a date involving entry to a place of limited access: the Savage Reservation, where humans are viviparous (elsewhere, humans are fertilized and formed entirely in test tubes). The couple is stunned at what they encounter: an elderly man, a woman nursing, and a slovenly, aged-looking mystery woman from their own world (off reservation, humans are chemically "preserved" into youthfulness until age 60). Unsurprisingly, the mystery woman and her son, ostracized for their differences on reservation, fare even worse in the Other Place.
Beyond the obvious issues like social class, behavioral conditioning, cloning, religion, morality, mortality and cultural differences between peoples, are those involving world politics and politicians. Huxley's fantastic, futuristic tale, first published in 1932, was ahead of its time in many ways, and will likely strike a chord with readers one and all. Also good, 1984 by George Orwell, The Giver by Lois Lowery, and Planet of the Apes by Pierre Boulle.
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