In Shakespeare's The Tempest Miranda speaks the words: "O brave new world, that has such people in it." When she says this, she is filled with admiration for her first glimpse of the world outside the island on which she grew up. Therefore the novel can be called a novel of ideas. Huxley wrote Brave New World to explain certain of his ideas, ideas concerning the dangers of technology for man. Another serious danger is that attention will be paid only too material welfare. The greatest danger caused by an idealisation of the advancement of science is that the individual may disappear. When they are little they been thought that they can't love somebody, so they're going to bed whit everybody. People are going to work and get their soma, they get their education at their level and they get sleep teaching. The fact that he wants is a right that the citizens of the New World have lost. When the Savage argues that happiness is too dearly bought if art, beauty, religion, and all creative thinking an human feeling must be sacrificed for it. He likes to be important, but he is not very popular because of his misshape. He has individual feelings, and he likes to be alone. Bernard is alone because there was a fault when he was an embryo. The mean point is that people aren't alone, they all the same, so they can't be alone. There is no love, no individualism, and people do not have extreme emotions. The motto is Community, Identity, and Stability. The novel satirises the notion that scientific development will lead to a perfect world. The sorry is told out of the third person. Humans are mass produced and preconditioned to become members of one of the social classes, ranging from Alpha plus to Epsilon minus. People are no longer born the natural way, but the state create and conditions them. The novel takes place in Europe, in 625 after ford. He can't life in a world like the Brave New World. After an emotional meeting with Lenina, he commits suicide. When John lives there tourist are going to him and they don't leave him alone. John wants to join them, but they only give him a house on a hill. His friends, Bernard and Helmholtz went to Iceland because they are both arrested because they are the friends of John. The people around him think that is just normal. They tell him that he may not read the Bibleīecause it is old. He says the, the brave new world is bat and that the soma is poison. When Linda dies, John has a lot of anger. All there is, are soma (a drug), feelies (sort of cinema) and a scent organ (which creates happy atmospheres). God is not important anymore there is no danger, no love and no pain. John thinks that the brave new world is madness. There is a big discussion between John and the controller. He wants that the world is just as his mother tells him. Lenina falls in love with John, but John is not a man for this brave new world. When Bernard a Lenina visit the Indian reservation, they meet John. Lenina is a pretty girl, who is very popular by the alphas. The Alpha's are the most intelligent, and the epsilons the most stupid. People are made in just five classes (from Alpha to Epsilon). Therefore, the people do not have a mother, a father, or other family so they can not feel strong love. There is also a technique, which makes it possible to raise babies in bottles. There is no love, no individualism and, and people do not have extreme emotions. The motto is Community, Identity and Stability. In the Year 623 (after Ford), there is a New World society. Brave New World (1932) has proved to be his most lastingly popular work. His primary importance is probably not as an author of imaginative fiction, but as a thinker whose ideas about man and society greatly influenced intellectuals in Europe between the two world wars. Huxley was a prolific writer of novels, short stories, essays, biography, drama and verse. Huxley suffered most of his life from an eye condition, which often made him nearly blind. In 1919 he married the Belgian Maria Nijs. Publisher Wolters-Noordhoff, Blackbirds, 1996.Īldous Huxley was born at Godalming, Surrey in 1894, into prominent family scientists.
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