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A Review Of Huxley's Brave New World
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Brave New World (1932) is one of the most insidious works of literature
ever written.
An exaggeration?
Tragically, no. Brave New World has come to serve as the false
symbol for any regime of universal happiness.
So how does Huxley turn a future w .... Middle of Essay
.... good designer-
drugs. Nor does Huxley's comparatively sympathetic account of the life of
the Savage on the Reservation convey just how nasty the old regime of pain,
disease and unhappiness can be. If you think it does, then you enjoy an
enviably sheltered life and an enviably cosy imagination. For it's all
sugar-coated pseudo-realism.
In BNW, Huxley contrives to exploit the anxieties of his bourgeois
audience about both Soviet Communism and Fordist American capitalism. He
taps into, and then feeds, our revulsion at Pavlovian-style behavioural
conditioning and eugenics. Worse, it is suggested that the price of
universal happiness wi ....
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