In this future world of authorial contradictions there is a “ perennially blue sky” except when it gets cloudy.
Feelgood’s opiate and programming isn’t working and nobody notices. So, for example, happy Bernard is “miserably isolated.” Either Huxley missed the contradiction for the sake of the novel or Dr. Everybody’s happy because they’re cranked up on the soma, except it seems too many people have an unusual amount of self-will and reflection and consequently they doubt and are bothered. In this world ‘Others’ are Mexicans, Chinese, and “savages of Samoa.” Women are consistently “girls” and they are consistently described as “charming.”īut no worries evidently. The result is castes of people, from Alphas on down with increasing ugliness and mental turpitude culminating with the Epsilons who are designed to handle the most mundane jobs.
In this new world adults gawk at frolicking prepubescent children and an interminably long opening details the system of genetic and social engineering. (2)īrave New World (BNW) as it tumbles from the dusty 1932 shelf is creepy and weird as Freudism meets Fordism. The atmosphere of the two books is similar, and it is roughly speaking the same kind of society that is being described, though Huxley’s book shows less political awareness and is more influenced by recent biological and psychological theories.” (1) Huxley evidently denied any derivation. Both books deal with the rebellion of the primitive human spirit against a rationalised, mechanised, painless world, and both stories are supposed to take place about six hundred years hence. Orwell, who was always a better writer than Huxley, wrote, “ The first thing anyone would notice about We is the fact - never pointed out, I believe - that Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World must be partly derived from it. Huxley’s fifth novel and his first work of sci fi, was said by George Orwell to be influenced by We the dystopian novel authored by Yevgeny Zamyatin and published in 1924.
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