Essay Archive - A Review of Huxley's Brave New World
A Review of Huxley's Brave New World
Brave New World (1932) is one of the most insidious works of literature
Tragically, no. Brave New World has come to serve as the false
symbol for any regime of universal happiness.
So how does Huxley turn a future where we're all notionally happy
into the archetypal dystopia? If it's technically feasible, what's wrong
with using biotechnology to get rid of mental pain altogether?
Brave New World is an unsettling, loveless and even sinister place.
This is because Huxley deliberately endows his "ideal" society with
features likely to alien....
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