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Brave New World
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Ford and Freud� Machinery and sexuality� These cosmic signs rule the world� Consumers and conformists constitute an ideal society�
No more childbirths� Human beings are cloned in batches� Population is strictly divided into castes� Sexual promiscuity flourishes but love is unknown�
“Oh, wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world, that has such people in ‘t!� William Shakespeare � The Tempest
One fine day, from the Mexican Reservation straight into the brave new world, the Savage is brought� In the total isolation, among the uncivilized natives, he thoroughly scrutinized The Complete Works of William Shakespeare and now, infected with the unhealthy poetic ideas, he falls in love� However, the old fiction turns out to be incongruous with the new reality.
Consumerism and conformity� It feels so much like today.
Like aphides and ants, the leaf-green Gamma girls, the black Semi-Morons swarmed round the entrances, or stood in queues to take their places in the monorail tram-cars. Mulberry-coloured Beta-Minuses came and went among the crowd. The roof of the main building was alive with the alighting and departure of helicopters.
No more childbirths� Human beings are cloned in batches� Population is strictly divided into castes� Sexual promiscuity flourishes but love is unknown�
“Oh, wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world, that has such people in ‘t!� William Shakespeare � The Tempest
One fine day, from the Mexican Reservation straight into the brave new world, the Savage is brought� In the total isolation, among the uncivilized natives, he thoroughly scrutinized The Complete Works of William Shakespeare and now, infected with the unhealthy poetic ideas, he falls in love� However, the old fiction turns out to be incongruous with the new reality.
Consumerism and conformity� It feels so much like today.
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Sep 24, 2021 01:20PM
Si algo podemos hacer para evitar o al menos ofrecer alguna resistencia para llegar a ese futuro demonÃaco serÃa empezar por leer a Shakespeare.
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Beautiful review, Vit! Thanks so much.
Thanks, friends. I wish more people started reading great books.
Fabulous review Vit, it's of one of my favourite books. Amazing to think that it was written 90yrs ago. Time to read it again methinks.
Yes, Dave, the novel reads as if it was written yesterday.
Didn't realize the title came from The Tempest. Should've, though. Shakespeare is the root of all titles, seems.
Thank you, Ken and Terri.
@Epsilon ¿Por dónde deberÃa empezar una persona?@Vit Thanks for reminding me I need to reread this. The prose - especially in the first third of the book - are as though Carvaggio was illustrating the story, which was already an excellent story to begin with. There are so many brilliant moments, and it's unexpectedly hilarious at times, as a bonus...which isn't something Orwell ever treats us to...
Yes, Huxley’s mocking irony plays a great part in the novel.
Cool review! Frightening, but cool. - )
One of my favourites! Thanks to your review will come back to it for sure!
it sure does feel so much like today! classic
Huxley really nailed the social issues of the future, it is scary how accurate this story is even if it is not exactly the future predicted we are still so close to it.
This book changed my life when I was a high school student!
Only great books are capable to produce such effect.
