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Summary: Read this book
Review: Read: Brave New World(Aldous Huxley), 1984(George Orwell), an essay "On Liberty" by John Stuart Mill, and the US Constitution. Read them, please! Develop an interest in politics and society, for everyone's sake, including your own. The only society worth living in is a free and informed society. Know what your elected officials are doing (taking away your freedoms). Freedom above all else! "Do what thou will shall be the whole of the law, until you violate the rights of another..." Freedom should be a birth right, it is not. Security is not a fair trade for FREEDOM!
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Summary: O' Brave New World
Review: I searched for Truth and found only happiness. Dreadful. Dreadful. I must atone. I must be good.I must find Truth. I must die. The only thing I truely know about and that is nothing. I escape.I suffer. I find pleasure in pain and suffer for my pleasure. A plane, A mind, with narry a machine to marry the two. And never the two shall meet. And never the two shall meet. With a clear mind I step off into eternity.
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Summary: brave this one best books i every read
Review: if you read 1984 or fahrenheit451 you will like brave new world as well
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Summary: Interesting ideas
Review: Brave New World was a good read, if slightly flawed. There were certain points to the story that were interesting, such as the themes of commercialism and mass production (embodied in a deified Henry Ford) vs. Art, embodied in the story through Shakespeare. Or the ironies such as how the culture has lost the "unnecessary" concept of religion and yet, in its place, deify Ford.However, I often found just as interesting were ways in which BNW unwittingly reveal certain patterns in both literature and in history. For example, how many science fiction novels deal with the problem of how an advanced culture can deal with menial tasks necessary for the society but undesired by that society. Or how Huxley developed the ideas of destroying the old (Shakespeare, classics of literature and music, etc) as a part of his dystopia which, when read, seems outlandish and, at times, silly, until one considers that China's Great Leap Forward, which occured AFTER the writing of this novel, echoed so many similar ideas... the eradication of the classics and anything referring to history. Not as much a classic as 1984, but still intruiging and well worth the read.
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Summary: A fantasy of the future....
Review: which shows mankind with private helicopters and having replaced God with Ford. A totalitarian state controls the people with eugenics, mass hypnosis and drugs. And the people ARE happy, as each person has been fit into a perfect job, molded and shaped from birth to fill their proper place in the social and economic plans of the State. Even their death from old age is used to condition the younger generation.
I liked '1984' more then 'Brave New World'. I'm not sure why, but I think it has to do with the 'Savage' being somewhat of a whiner.
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Summary: Interesting look at our future
Review: In the days of cloning, this book seems all the more real and intriguing. Huxley's Alpha, Beta and Gamma groups of people that have been cloned and taught to do certain things, strikes a very familiar chord with recent events and debates going on now on the ethic's of cloning. What if Hitler had these technologies during WWII so he was able to not only exterminate the Jews but to clone more people with the dominant traits he thought so superior? We (as a society) have already been confronted with Orwell's Big Brotherly surveillance of society as can be seen in the movie "Enemy of the State." What will happen when and if the cloning technologies of "Brave New World" also enter our society? A must read for anyone in today's world!!
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Summary: A sci-fi book still ahead of our time
Review: This is a sci-fi classic and as it happens with books such as this and "1984",from G.Orwell, as it did with the sci-fi "2001" (the film), this is a sci-fi book written dozens of years ago and which mantains its integrity, its thrill and even its futuristic features. In "Brave New World", contrasting with what happens in the Orwellian "1984", where people is pressured into unresistance trough coercion in all its forms, people acquiesce into submission trough easy access to pleasure, inebriating themselves with Soma, a type of drug most powerfull to produce the passivity desired by governants. Isn't it something familiar to us in a society surrounded by instant pleasure (alcohol, drugs, cigarretes, instant love and so on)? Don't we all need a kind of Soma to get by trough our daily lives? This book (and "1984') is a must for anyone interested in looking into the mechanisms of control at the disposition of tyrants as "1984".
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Summary: Community, Identity, and Stability
Review: What an ominous, yet prophetic, beginning to this masterpiece of the dystopian genre. Huxley, ostensibly before his massive procurement of hallucinogenic mind-altering drugs, delivered one of the most profoundly provocative, albeit disturbing, works of the 20th Century. Although the beginning is somewhat prolix and a bit detail-oriented, Brave New World shines brilliantly the rest of the way through this ingeniously written magnum opus. I must admit that Huxley's class distinctions are readily apparent even in today's society - even without genetic cloning. Every time I encounter some icompetent ingrate, I can't help but consider him an Epsilon semi-moron - how apropos. Although many of the foreboding elements Huxley delineates throughout Brave New World are somewhat outrageous, I must admit that the ubiquity of the Feelies, soma, sexual promiscuity, declining societal moral values, as well as the pervasive obsession with maintaining one's youthful appearance, emanate, as much, if not more, abundantly, in today's society, as they do in his timeless classic. Perhaps Huxley became somewhat deranged and deluded later in his career, nonetheless, he still had his wits when he penned what is undeniably one of my top 10 books of all-time.Brave New World proves to be a most uniquely novel idea of a novel(pardon the pun). It comes highly recommended as it is pure unadulterated brain candy.
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Summary: Great Intellectual Read
Review: Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley, was a fantastic book. I would recommend this book for all teenagers that want a conceptual and captivating novel. Brave New World is well thought out from beginning to end, and provokes thought on important issues. However, Huxley takes quite a long time to eventually get his book started. I did not fully understand the book until after the first few chapters. After finishing the book, I look back at the first chapters and I understand it completely. To gain the full grasp of this novel, one might have to re-read some parts that get a little complex. For example, in the beginning chapters Huxley mentions the Caste System, which was not clear to me until I understood all of the members in it and their duties. Although there are some drawbacks, the pros definitely outweigh the cons.
Bernard Marx, a member of the Caste System who feels rejected because he is different than the others, wishes to isolate himself from the rest of society, and also wishes to explore the concept of freedom. He later meets a savage, people who are actually born, on a reservation named John, and takes him back home with him. Trouble arises, and they both are sent to meet with Mustapha Mond, one of the ten "world controllers," to discuss their conduct. Bernard is banished to Iceland, while John and Mustapha Mond have a long discussion about freedom and happiness. John mentions that he has true happiness and freedom, while others in the utopian society are subject to slavery and do not have the opportunity to achieve it. Mustapha Mond responds saying that John was alone and interdependent, while everyone in the utopian society is in dependence of others, therefore in constant universal freedom and happiness. John, becoming frustrated with the argument, leaves to find solitude. In the end he kills himself realizing that it is pointless to live in a world where others will never know true freedom and happiness.
Huxley portrays a utopian society far into the future where humans are fertilized, rather than born. These humans are conditioned to have a certain destiny. Because of their conditioning, everyone is content with their jobs and status. Therefore, they lack freedom to control their own lives. It is explained that freedom is sacrificed for happiness. Because of this, each character in this utopian society is like a robot that is controlled by a totalitarian government headed by ten "world controllers." This reveals Huxley's opinion of human cloning and the true meaning behind his novel.
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Summary: Great Captivating Book
Review: Brave New World, by Aldous Huxely, was a fantastic book. I would recommend this book for all teenagers that want a conceptual and captivating novel. Brave New World is well thought out from beginning to end, and provokes thought on important issues. However, Huxely takes quite a long time to eventually get his book started. I did not fully understand the book until after the first few chapters. After finishing the book, I look back at the first few chapters and I understand it completely. To gain the full grasp of this novel, one might have to re-read some parts that get a little complex. For example, in the beginning chapters Huxely mentions the Caste System, which was not clear to me until I understood all of the members in it and their duties. Although there are some drawbacks, the pros definitely outweigh the cons.
Bernard Marx, a member of the Caste System who feels rejected because he is different than the others, wishes to isolate himself from the rest of society, and also wishes to explore the concept of freedom. He later meets a savage, people who are actually born, on a reservation named John, and takes him back home with him. Trouble soon arises, and they are both sent to meet with Mustapha Mond, one of the ten "world controllers," to discuss their conduct. Bernard is banished to Iceland, while John and Mustapha Mond have a long discussion about freedom and happiness. John mentions that he has true happiness and freedom, while others in the utopian society are subject to slavery and do not have the opportunity to achieve it. Mustapha Mond responds saying that John was alone and interdependent, while everyone in the utopian society is in dependence of others, therefore in constant universal freedom and happiness. John, becoming frustrated with the argument, leaves to find solitude. In the end he kills himself realizing that it is pointless to live in a world where others will never know true freedom and happiness.
Huxely portrays a utopian society far into the future where humans are fertilized, rather than born. These humans are conditioned to have a certain destiny. Because of their conditioning, everyone is content with their jobs and status. Therefore, they lack the freedom to control their own lives. It is explained that freedom is sacrificed for happiness. Because of this, each character in this utopian society is like a robot that is controlled by a totalitarian government headed by ten "world controllers." This reveals Huxely's opinion of human cloning and the true meaning behind his novel.
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