Brave New World
Dec 14, 2021
Written in 1931, Brave New World is a dystopian science fiction novel.
The title is an allusion to a line from the play The Tempest by William Shakespeare.
How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world
It centres around one’s fear of losing individual identity in a scientifically controlled society of the future.
By describing a society that maintains social control by means of a happiness-inducing drug, Aldous Huxley draws parallels with a socialist utopia.
However, a conditioned lifestyle eventually leads one of the protagonists to demand ‘the right to be unhappy’
But I don’t want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.
