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Towering classic of dystopian satire, BRAVE NEW WORLD is a brilliant and terrifying vision of a soulless society--and of one man who discovers the human costs of mindless conformity. Hundreds of years in the future, the World Controllers have created an ideal civilization. Its members, shaped by genetic engineering and behavioral conditioning, are productive and content in roles they have been assigned at conception. Government-sanctioned drugs and recreational sex ensure that everyone is a happy, unquestioning consumer; messy emotions have been anesthetized and private attachments are considered obscene. Only Bernard Marx is discontented, developing an unnatural desire for solitude and a distaste for compulsory promiscuity. When he brings back a young man from one of the few remaining Savage Reservations, where the old unenlightened ways still continue, he unleashes a dramatic clash of cultures that will force him to consider whether freedom, dignity, and individuality are worth suffering for.… (mais)
zasmine: For Orwell was inspired by it. And Orwell's 1984 is as much of a prize as it.
li33ieg: 1984, Brave New World and Fahrenheit 451: 3 essential titles that remind us of the need to keep our individual souls pure.
Ludi_Ling: Really, the one cannot be mentioned without the other. Actually, apart from the dystopian subject matter, they are very different stories, but serve as a great counterpoint to one another.
Utilizador anónimo: It's essential to read Huxley's and Orwell's books together. Both present the ultimate version of the totalitarian state, but there the similarities end. While Orwell argues in favour of hate and fear, Huxley suggests that pleasure and drugs would be far more effective as controlling forces. Who was the more prescient prophet? That's what every reader should decide for him- or herself.… (mais)
artturnerjr: If you read only one other dystopian SF story, make it this one (well, you should read 1984, too, but you knew that already, didn't you?).
leigonj: Haldane's ideas of eugenics and ectogenesis, which are laid out alongside others including world government and psychoactive drugs, strongly influenced Huxley's novel.
Strange experience to finally a read a book one knows so much about. Similar to my experience reading The Odyssey. It’s not quite as interesting as I thought it would be. It’s very English and dated, and I never really cared that much for any of the characters. The set up is interesting and enduring, obviously, but I’m not sure reading the book added that much to the ideas within the book. The use of Ford as the “god” of the society was clever and apt. The emphasis on not just the pleasure-seeking society, but the consumerism and infantilizing goals of the orchestrators of the society were all too true. I can’t remember the book "We" enough to appreciate the charges of plagiarism. All in all good and worth reading, but a little clunky and bloodless. I just went and reread my blog post about "We" and, I will state that there is no comparison. "We" had a humor and wit that is not really present in "Brave New World" which in comparison seems just…angry.
Brave New World is definitely a trope setter for dystopia and sci-fi books that would come later. However, the prose is very overwhelming, so if you have trouble focusing when reading, you're better off listening to an audiobook version or reading the physical book alongside listening to an audiobook. It's a slog to read if you have trouble focusing because the prose is very heavy, at times abstract, easy to get lost in because it can go from explaining how the world works, to yelling in writing, describing a certain process, to describing characters and the world - and it can easily become word soup. A very overstimulating word soup.
So I found an audiobook version and listened to it wheel reading the book and that helped me focus a lot better. Then I just gave up on reading the book because I found the story more fun to listen to in order to imagine what was happening, rather than reading about it and having to focus on the words in front of me while also trying to imagine what was happening. ( )
It's a classic with very original ideas, several of which are critiques of consumerism (perhaps because it is, in part, a product of the roaring '20s!) and even warnings for our current times--genetic engineering comes to mind. Execution sometimes wanes in the lectures, particularly Mond's at the end, but it's a quick read and, as satire, entertaining. ( )
Pretty amazingly brings into focus the question of "what's the point?" I was constantly thinking about the point of society and what "progress" is meant to accomplish throughout. It's not as if this is the first time I've considered this stuff but the book does a great job of making you feel about it. The world it sketches out is fascinating. The last two chapters he kind of goes full on monologue and doesn't hide the point of the book but it's still great. The various world views and the lack of an obvious "hero" or "correct" opinion is nice. This review isn't really getting across why I really liked it but just trust me it's great ok.
Uses a couple of racist terms which were pretty eyebrow raising (octoroon???). Otherwise I loved it. ( )
"I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin." And how!
Seriously, what a wonderful, bizarre, and unsettling story. From the opening scenes in the hatchery onwards, Huxley thoroughly immerses you in his meticulous vision of mass production gone wrong. The Alphas and their obstacle golf, the Epsilons and their eclairs - we see the commodification of everything and everyone brought to it's absolute zenith. The Savage is the perfect prism through which to view the World State's excess of pleasure and poverty of passion. Really any work of literature could be improved by the inclusion of a Shakespeare-spouting histrionic.
I was worried that returning to this 10 years on might feel a little too English 101 - but no, it still owns. Maybe I don't read enough. I didn't do that well in English 101. In any case, Brave New World feels like a perfect Twilight Zone episode dressed up in lush Oxbridge prose and wit. I love it. ( )
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Les utopies apparaissent bien plus réalisables qu'on ne le croyait autrefois. Et nous nous trouvons actuellement devant une question bien autrement angoissante : comment éviter leur réalisation définitive ?… Les utopies sont réalisables. La vie marche vers les utopies. Et peut-être un siècle nouveau commence-t-il, un siècle où les intellectuels et la classe cultivée rêveront aux moyens d'éviter les utopies et de retourner à une société non utopique moins 'parfaite' et plus libre. (—Nicholas Berdiaeff)
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A squat grey building of only thirty-four stories.
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Unorthodoxy threatens more than the life of a mere individual; it strikes at Society itself.
..."What fun it would be," he thought, "if one didn't have to think about happiness!"
"I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin ... I'm claiming the right to be unhappy". "Not to mention the right to grow old and ugly and impotent; the right to have syphilis and cancer; the right to have too little to eat; the right to be lousy; the right to live in constant apprehension of what may happen tomorrow; the right to catch typhoid; the right to be tortured by unspeakable pains of every kind." ... "I claim them all".
"All conditioning aims at that: making people like their unescapable social destiny."
"No civilisation without social stability. No social stability without individual stability."
Feeling lurks in that interval of time between desire and its consummation. Shorten that interval, break down all those unnecessary old barriers.
The social body persists although the component cells may change.
It was the sort of idea that might make the higher castes believe that the purpose of life was not the maintenance of well-being, but some intensification and refining of consciousness, some enlargement of knowledge.
The world’s stable now. People are happy; they get what they want, and they never want what they can’t get.
Science is dangerous. It must be chained and muffled.
People believe in God because they have been conditioned to believe.
But everyone belongs to everyone else.
Some men are almost rhinoceroses; they ron’t respond properly to conditioning. (Henry)
I’d rather be unhappy than have the false, lying happiness you were having here.
Every discovery in pure science is potentially subversive; even science must sometimes be treated as a possible enemy. Yes, even science.
But truth’s a menace, science is a public danger.
He would have liked to speak, but there were no words.
But I don’t want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness, I want sin...
I’m claiming the right to be unhappy. Not to mention the right to grow old and ugly and impotent; the right to have syphilis and cancer; the right to have too little to eat; the right to be lousy; the right to live in constant apprehension of what may happen to-morrow; the right to catch typhoid; the right to be tortured by unspeakable pains of every kind.
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Towering classic of dystopian satire, BRAVE NEW WORLD is a brilliant and terrifying vision of a soulless society--and of one man who discovers the human costs of mindless conformity. Hundreds of years in the future, the World Controllers have created an ideal civilization. Its members, shaped by genetic engineering and behavioral conditioning, are productive and content in roles they have been assigned at conception. Government-sanctioned drugs and recreational sex ensure that everyone is a happy, unquestioning consumer; messy emotions have been anesthetized and private attachments are considered obscene. Only Bernard Marx is discontented, developing an unnatural desire for solitude and a distaste for compulsory promiscuity. When he brings back a young man from one of the few remaining Savage Reservations, where the old unenlightened ways still continue, he unleashes a dramatic clash of cultures that will force him to consider whether freedom, dignity, and individuality are worth suffering for.
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I just went and reread my blog post about "We" and, I will state that there is no comparison. "We" had a humor and wit that is not really present in "Brave New World" which in comparison seems just…angry.