Brave New World
then to Oxford. He was a brilliant man, and became a succesful writer of short stories in
the twenties and thirties. He also wrote essays and novels, like ''. The
first novels he wrote were comments on the young generation, with no goal whatsoever,
that lived after WW I. Before he became the writer as we know him, he worked as a
journalist and a critic of drama. In his books, especially the later ones, he sometimes
presents himself as a teacher or a philosopher, to literate us as readers. Next to novels,
essays and short stories he also wrote poems, biographies, plays, political/sci-fi books,
travel books and even a record of his experiments with drugs. 'Brave New World' was
first ...
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in the book to
illustrate the individuals.
Theme: In the foreword Huxley states: "The theme of 'Brave New World' is not the
advancement of science as such; it is the advancement of science as it affects human
individuals." The picture of the world given in the book describes the condition of the
human individual in a western civilization in a 'near' future. The society has turned into a
well oiled machine, in which everything is controlled, even the future profession of the
individual is determined before birth. It's a society in which the human being only serves
a sociological and scientifical purpose, the individual thought is overruled by one big
totalitarian state, likewise emotion and initiative are ruled out. Giving birth is forbidden,
sex is the most normal thing on earth, and even drugs is taken with the routine and
amount of normal meals. Only a small group of the real man exists, be it's far outside the
'civilized' world. John Savage is one of them, representitive of ...
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in an easy readable way, no real difficult words, and not
much hard philosofical, mind twisting passages to overcome. The climax of the story is
when Bernard has picked up John and his mother, and suddenly has a certain grip on his
boss, who was about to fire him (John is the unlawful son of his boss). After that he also
gets the idea that his earlier urge to something individual has it's roots in true freedom,
and thus he wants to be free. But instead he uses John to get attention and 'respect' from
his fellow Alphas.
Summary: In the year 632 after Ford, the new Director of the Central London Hatchery
and Conditioning Centre explains the functionality of his plant to a group of ...
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