Review: Brave New World

Title: Brave New World

Author: Aldous Huxley

Huxley's vision of the future in his astonishing 1931 novel Brave New World -- a world of tomorrow in which capitalist civilization has been reconstituted through the most efficient scientific and psychological engineering, where the people are genetically designed to be passive, consistently useful to the ruling class.

Plot: ♥♥♥♥

Character Development: ♥♥♥

Writing:♥♥

Creativity: ♥♥♥♥

Overall Appeal: ♥♥♥

I read this book recently at school which was assigned. Brave New World has ALOT of depth despite its simplistic writing. I think the symbols, allusions and the characterization are the strongest elements in this novel. You can see how Huxley juxtaposes his dystopian society to ours today. Unlike 1984 by George Orwell which is more of a serious tone on Orwell's criticism. In this book its more comical as he mocks the faults of totalitarian Russian government. Many of the allusions refer to Shakespeare which took an interest in me because I can now see the contrast in Shakespeare's world v.s. the New World. The ongoing discussions about morals and ethics especially on Lenina gave me a fright in our society. I think this book is a MUST TO READ type of novel. If you read about World War I and II, you would be able to point out some allusions in the book. As I was reading this its almost as if Huxley has deliberately predicted our future.