A Review Of Huxley's Brave New World
Beginning of paper
Brave New World (1932) is one of the most insidious works of literature
ever written.
An exaggeration?
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
int ....
Middle of paper
.... peak experiences, and a spectrum of outrageously good designer-
drugs. Nor does Huxley's comparatively sympathetic account of the life of
the Savage on the Reservation convey just how nasty the old regime of pain,
disease and unhappiness can be. If you think it does, then you enjoy an
enviably sheltered life and an enviably cosy imagination. For it's all
sugar-coated pseudo-realism.
In BNW, Huxley contrives to exploit the anxieties of his bourgeois
audience about both Sovie ....
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