Brave New World
There is no denying that it is man’s innate desire to want more, to be better, and to strive for perfection. In Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, that same desire is what drives the World State to construct a “civilized” society where happiness determines “Community, identity, stability (Huxley, 3).” Juxtaposed to a Savage Reservation, this “Brave New World” eventually reveals itself as being anything but a Utopia, because nothing is perfect.
Set in the year 2540 in London, Huxley presents a society that promotes happiness through technological advances, promiscuous sex and drug use. There is no more war and poverty, there is only happiness. From the very beginning of the novel, we are introduced to a cold and inhumane setting. Huxley uses the metaphor “The light was frozen, dead, a ghost, (Huxley, 3),” in describing the laboratory in which humans are produced in the masses. Such strong imagery conveys the idea that processes such as the Bokanovsky process are......
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