Huxley believed that the possibility for such destruction did not only belong to weapons of war but to other scientific advancements as well. In World War I, humanity had seen the great destruction that technology such as bombs, planes, and machine guns could cause. His novel attempts to show how such science, when taken too far, can limit the flourishing of human thought. The Western world, Huxley believed, placed too much emphasis on scientific progress at the expense of a love for beauty and art. Huxley had himself desired a scientific career before the near blindness that he suffered during childhood kept him from such pursuits. The novel also comments on humanity's indiscriminate belief in progress and science. Many readers initially found this difficult to accept, living as they did in the aftermath of World War I, when a lack of societal control had caused a war that inflicted great pain and death on an entire continent. Through Brave New World and his other writings, he suggested that beauty is a result of pain and that society's desire to eliminate pain limits society's ability to thrive culturally and emotionally. This intrusion, he believed, limited the expression of freedom and beauty that is integral to the human character. Huxley, by 1932, had observed the increasing tendency of Western government to intrude upon people's lives. Huxley's novel is chiefly a critique of the socialist policies that states had begun to advocate in the early twentieth century. The novel envisions a world that, in its quest for social stability and peace, has created a society devoid of emotion, love, beauty, and true relationships. This book brings together detailed notes, academic annotations and study questions for students reviewing Aldous Huxley’s book in an educational light to study its cultural and literary significance.Īldous Huxley was an English novelist best known for his books Crome Yellow, Antic Hay, Eyeless in Gaza, After Many a Summer and Island.īorn into the house of the prominent Thomas Huxley, the biologist, Aldous studied at Balliol college, and taught French at Eton, where among his pupils were George Orwell and Steven Runciman.īrave New World has been adapted into several TV films, most recently in 1998 by Burt Brinckerhoff for Universal Television.Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, published in 1932, is a dystopian novel set six hundred years in the future. Only one man seems to want to break away from this system, but he stands no chance against it. Genetic engineering has washed awake the individual traits and strengths. It tells the story of a world where people are born only through artificial reproduction.
Sparknotes presents detailed notes on Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, the science fiction classic.Īldous Huxley’s dystopian classic is considered a timeless masterpiece.
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