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About the Author
He was born into a prominent Huxley family and graduated from Balliol College, Oxford University with a bachelor's degree in English Literature. Early in his career, he published short stories and poems and edited the literary magazine "Oxford Poetry", and later published travel works, satires, and scripts.
He spent
the last part of his life in the United States, living in Los Angeles from 1937
until his death. At the end of his life, Huxley was widely regarded as one of
the most outstanding intellectuals of his time. He was nominated for the Nobel
Prize in Literature nine times, and was elected as a Fellow of the Royal
Society of Letters in 1962.
Review
Nearly six hundred years
later, Brave New World will open in London ("After Ford"). Human life
is almost completely industrialized, controlled by a few people at the top of
the world.
In the first scene, visiting
the laboratory creates and regulates human beings according to the strict social caste system, setting the theme of anti-corrosion and dehumanizing life.
The natural processes of birth, aging and death represent the horror of this
world.
Alpha-plus (or high caste) psychologist Bernard Marx became the only unhappy person in the world. In this world, material comfort and physical pleasure are driven by drug use and entertaining sex.
Providing is the only worry. Despite being despised by women, Bernard
managed to get the attention of Lenina Crone, and the "pneumatic"
beauty agreed to vacation with him on the remote Savage Reservation in New
Mexico, a place away from London's controlled technology.
Before Bernard left, his
boss D.H.C. He spontaneously revealed that he too had been to the Barbara
Reserve a long time ago, and sadly admitted that he had lost the woman
accompanying him. He felt embarrassed by making his unacceptable emotions known
to society. D.H.C turned on Bernard, threatening to banish him for his social
sins, not sexually and physically enough.
In the Lenina Wild Reserve,
Bernard met a London woman who gave birth to a son about 20 years ago. Seeing
that he had a chance to gain power over D.H.C., the boy's father, Bernard
brought Linda and John back to London and publicly introduced them to the
D.H.C. that he was about to expel Bernard.
Shocked and humiliated by
the evidence of his terrible connection to natural birth, D.H.C. he fled in
horror. Bernard, who was once abandoned by society, now enjoys great success
because he is connected to the new celebrity, John, and is called the "barbarian."
Under traditional
reservation methods and the nourishment of old Shakespearean poems, John finds
London strange, confusing, and ultimately disgusting. He quoted Miranda's lines
in "The Tempest" - "Oh, a happy world / there are people like that"
- at first to express his amazement at the "other place" his mother
told him when he was a child. But as John grew increasingly disgusted with
London entertainment, the meat, and the humans themselves, this phrase became
ironic.
Lenina's attempt to seduce
John's anger and violence, and then Linda's death, further aroused her anger.
In the end, John tried to exclude a large number of Deltas from his body
rations, which resulted in riots and his arrest. Bernard and Helmholtz Watson
were "emotional engineers" who wanted to become poets.
All three are facing the
trial of the world controller Mustafa Mund. He admits the flaws of this happy
new world but declares that the loss of freedom and individuality is a small
price to pay for stability. Mond deported Bernard and Helmholtz to the Falkland
Islands and stipulated that John must stay in London.
When his two friends were in
exile, John decided to hide for himself in a remote lighthouse on the outskirts
of the city. There, he tried to purify his civilization through ritual flogging
and vomiting.
Attracted by the spectacle
of his savage confession, reporters and the crowd put pressure on John, and he
became a public curiosity: a human animal in the zoo. When Lenina appeared from
the crowd, John angrily attacked her with a whip. John's fanaticism angered the
crowd. According to his social background, violence turned into a sexual
carnival, and John was attracted more or less reluctantly.
The next day, when John woke
up from the influence of his body, he realized in horror what he had done. The
novel ends with an image of John's body, his body hung on the wooden beams of
the lighthouse shelter, lifeless.
You can buy this book easily from Amazon: A brave new world
Written By - Nachiket Kekre
Edited By - Anamika Malik
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