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                              Brave New World



     "Brave new world," takes place in Central London in the year
A.F. 623. The surrounding in Central London indicate an overall
geometrically shaped table-topped buildings of cubic structures,
with glass and grey surfaces. The city is encircle by sixty
kilometres of green parkland shrubbery, separating Central London
from the satellite suburbs which surround the parkland. This
creates an organic bond between the Central London and the suburbs,
stating that humankind has a link to technological industry and the
way that society lives; the green parkland is the bases of all
existence where man and machine developed and are forever linked
together by the motto,"Community, Identity, stability". Where the
Central city harnesses the young and govern society's future.

     The production of billions of embryos without mother's or
father's, and sleep induced structuring of the young; where
everyone belongs to everyone and monogamy is considered abnormal.
"Brave new world," deals with a society which feels that a mother
and father who might have abnormal straits of their own which might
hinder the child's development and his or her ability to cope with
society, therefore the solution is State Conditioning Centres. In
conditioning Centres the child (the egg) is procreate and bottled
in an embryo, from the beginning of the child's birth, the child
learns all his or her lessons on how to be a stable structure in
society by sleep induced structuring (Elementary Class
Consciousness). When monogamy is present individuals have only one
outlet for the love and the support they need, creating disorder;
where madness, wickedness and misery rule the foundations of the
world. In a society where everyone belongs to everyone, their is no
unhappiness, people are free to love and beloved by more then one
individual, to work for the good of the community rather then for
oneself. Premodern society didn't allow them to be sane, virtuous
or happy, thinking only of isolation and solitude of family life.

     John (the Savage) believed in God, monogamy, a mother, a
father and natural course of life, but Bernard Marx and Lenina
Crown thought his view to be strange and unusual. He prayed to god
to show him the way he should live his life, disregarding the view
of modern society people like Bernard and Lenina who only could
praise Ford; not a god but a man who made the rules of society.
John believed in loving just one person, then marrying the
individual that he loved, Bernard and Lenina believed in sharing
oneself with others, and monogamy was considered abnormal. John was
born on a premodern reserve, he was surround by people who had
families, were children developed in the home not in Conditioning
Centres; Bernard and Lenina came from a bottled embryos with no
family surroundings. Having a mother and father was something to
laugh about not take seriously. Honour and heroic act were part of
John's life, he believed in growing old and dieing naturally, of
the right to be sad and alone when he wanted to be; but Bernard and
Lenina were instructed to believe in happiness of and sadness or
wanting to be alone was frowned upon, they had ways of stopping
aging and life was to be lived to it's fullest extent. John found
it difficult to live within a society who thought is views were
something to be laugh upon because they were out of date.

     Aldous Huxley author of "Brave new world," wanted to show
society what the future will be like, if society continues on the
path that we are taking now. "Brave new world," believes in
stability, leaving behind the old world where everyone worked only
for themselves, maintaining some sort of solitude in isolation
while trying to achieve stability. In "Brave new world," everyone
is instructed to think alike, and togetherness is emphasised for
the assurance of stability of the community, independent thought is
considered abnormal and is rejected (which the twenty first century
considers natural, normal and excepts as part of human nature).
Humanity is left behind in "Brave new world," humankind is turned
into a machines, what was considered to be the natural development
of life, is turned into a mechanical production operated by
machines which called themselves civilized beings, controlled by
force they themselves have created. Where the straits, feeling and
bonds that make indivi-duals human, are forever lost in the chaos
of stability in the "Brave new world."

     The "Brave new world," closely parallels today's society, and
the coming of what tomorrow will bring. The author shows in
frightening reality that tomorrow's society might change so
dramatically that it would be hard to recognizes the straits that
have been imbedded in humanity for as long ago as time. In "Brave
new world," the future society  would change to the extent of
machinery is ironic, for humanity itself created machinery then to
think that machinery which was created by humans would begin to
control it's own creator. By making the creator into the invention
and working it like a machine, with no outside thoughts of anything
which was not programmed into it's mechanical components. The
author uses flashbacks in order to inform a major character
(Bernard) about the main protagonist (John's) ideals and thoughts,
while maintaining an overall third person point of view. The
author's points out that for stability of tomorrow, humankind is
willing to give up everything, even human nature.









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                                                 Varqar Ali Khan
                                                 Homeform: 210
                                                 April 26, 1992







                             " Brave New World"



                           Author: Aldous Huxley


                           Number of pages: 7-255

                      Published by: Triad Grafton book