I have to be honest;
Aldous Huxley’s, Brave New World is rather quite confusing to me. Everything
is put out so fast in the first chapter. The chapter lets us know all the new
things that have been discovered and achieved in the ‘New World’ such as human
cloning, rapid maturation, and prenatal conditioning. I’m confused if
this world in rather a utopia or rather something completely different. Does
anyone else feel this way? I have great enthusiasm for the fact that they made
a good revision to the calendar and used After Ford instead of the birth of
Christ. I see the theme quite clearly in chapter one, but may not be quite
clear of it. I find the theme to be the production of humans vs. the assembly
lines for costumer goods. Do any of you agree on this? Do you guys think this
novel is rather odd? Or is it just me. It has me quite lost sometime , but I find
it best to slow down and reread it.
This book is considered dystopian because one of the 'themes' is a shortcoming of a utopian society. I would agree that one of the themes of this particular book is the human v. assembly line goods you mentioned above. Another theme I found was 'With such rapid technologic advancements and growing discontent of the drawbacks of natral humans, will humanity really discard things like emotion and choice for the sake of that discontent?' Indeed it is a very odd novel, and difficult to digest, but after a while, the mannerisms and author's style seem less difficult to understand. I get lost as well...
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