As I just recently finished reading Brave New World, overall it was a pretty interesting novel. At the beginning it was very confusing to understand what was going on. As I continued reading it grew on me and became more and more interesting. The way how this dystopian society is and how mostly everyone seems to be okay with it, but this is only because this is all they know. This idea of creating babies in little bottles, but with radiation and alcohol poisoning eggs to do so. It is pretty fascinating. I wonder how that would actually work. What even made the author come up with something like that? Characters are divided into castes, with weird unusual traits. Another thing is how children were basically brainwashed to have certain likes and dislikes towards different things. Even babies were put through pain, such as, getting electrocuted to hate nature and books. What a crazy world that they had to live in. Good thing it’s not like that for us.
- Deja McClanahan
I agree with you that the concept of the novel was difficult in the beginning of the book. A lot of the time, it was hard to understand what was actually happening. The storyline however was really interesting because it's so foreign to us and to think this could possibly happen to us is even more thought-provoking. Personally, I feel that the author thought of how people are and how as time progresses, people are practically zombies with no emotion under their government's control.
ReplyDeleteI can relate to the fact that the book was rather confusing in the beginning of the novel. At first I was struggling to understand the concept of the book. Overtime I started to become conscious to image of what it was unfolding. It would interesting to experience the lifestyle in the novel since they have a different way of living. Perhaps making babies through a machine is less painful since a mother wouldn't be going through the process of pregnancy and labor and the chances of dying during labor.
ReplyDeleteI understand at the beginning of Brave New World the concept of the novel was preferably bewildering. The development in characters and adventures within the novel was astonishing and fascinating. Because the civilians are oblivious to their dystopian society, their Controller’s (administrator) intentions are viewed as a benefit. Furthermore, creating artificial embryos in bottles are only exposed to photographic light with tropical temperature. Aldous Huxley was inspired by the perspective of today’s society with engineering and technology to conceptualize the genetically bred humans. Because the civilians in the dystopian society came from artificial embryos, their features are divergent from everyone else, along with their influence of interests. Our society could possibly correlate with their world due to the improvement of engineering and technology we proceed with today.
ReplyDeleteAs peculiar as this idea is, I do not believe that the author’s idea for the book is limited to this book. Brave New World’s method of categorizing children could be found from some part of the real world. Take, for example, any country that has varying rooted classes that predispose children into certain environments. Like you mentioned, certain people are categorized into different groups and castes, which furthers this idea as both scenarios contain predisposed environments.
ReplyDeleteThe novel was indeed difficult to understand at first but it really opened up our eyes to something new. It showed what could actually happen on the future and how scary it would be to be trained to dislike certain things. I don't know how I would be able to live if we all of a sudden we changed our lifestyle like theirs.
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