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great book. we're reading it in World Literature currently, everyone should look at it. it's about basically what the title says, a totally different world 60 years in the future. everything is controlled; peoples' lives are set ahead of them from the moment of birth, and they are put into groups based on their intelligence. here's a link if you want to know more about it.
http://www.sparknote...m/lit/bravenew/
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Brave New World by Adlous Huxley
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Posted 13 January 2005 - 08:39 AM
Ah we had to read Brave New World for English last year. Good book in some factors but a little... disturbing.
It was amazing the fact that Aldous Huxley thought this would be what the world would become in the future and that the ideas for the book were influenced by what was happening around him. However it was kind of interesting that children would be... fully developed and would be able to have children by about the age of... 8 if I can remember clearly.
It was also interesting to see he had created a "Social Strata" for the people going from the Alpha Double Plus to the Epsilon Semi-Morons. And it was interesting to see that everyone was the same race and culture and that all the other cultures such as the Spanish had become obselite. The Native Americans had been withdrawn to the "Reservation". It seems Huxley thought the world would be more racist in the future. The "whites" lived in the luxury of technology and the "blacks" lived in the harsh environment of the Reservation with basically nothing.
I think that's what I can remember from the book...
It was amazing the fact that Aldous Huxley thought this would be what the world would become in the future and that the ideas for the book were influenced by what was happening around him. However it was kind of interesting that children would be... fully developed and would be able to have children by about the age of... 8 if I can remember clearly.
It was also interesting to see he had created a "Social Strata" for the people going from the Alpha Double Plus to the Epsilon Semi-Morons. And it was interesting to see that everyone was the same race and culture and that all the other cultures such as the Spanish had become obselite. The Native Americans had been withdrawn to the "Reservation". It seems Huxley thought the world would be more racist in the future. The "whites" lived in the luxury of technology and the "blacks" lived in the harsh environment of the Reservation with basically nothing.
I think that's what I can remember from the book...
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Posted 13 January 2005 - 01:14 PM
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Posted 14 January 2005 - 02:44 AM
It was interesting. Definitely not my favorite "utopia" book, though.
Ones I liked more:
Farenheit 451 (Bradbury)
Lord of the Flies (Golding)
1984 (Orwell)
Animal Farm (Orwell)
If you liked BNW, I strongly recommend all of those.
Ones I liked more:
Farenheit 451 (Bradbury)
Lord of the Flies (Golding)
1984 (Orwell)
Animal Farm (Orwell)
If you liked BNW, I strongly recommend all of those.
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