Brave New World - Aldous Huxley Reviews

Brave New World is a sci-fi novel about a 'Utopian' society. Auldous Huxley wrote of a society where each person was bred to do a specific task and trained to be happy and contented with their lot. Society is divided into classes with the Alphas at the top, the Betas as blue collar workers, Gammas as skilled manual workers. At the ...  Read the complete review

This is by far Aldous Huxleys most famous novel.It has a rich fund of ideas with convincing characters and plot. The title is taken from Shakespear's The Tempest in which Miranda,exiled on an island since early childhood,sees other human beings for the first time and remarks "O brave new world that has such people in it!" ...  Read the complete review

Brave New World is set in the future, where society has changed in a number of fundamental ways. The most striking of these is the way in which children are raised. Giving birth is considered sickening - babies are born in test tubes, their foetuses subjected to various different processes, and the children are conditioned during early life. This ...  Read the complete review

Brave New World follows several characters in the world of 'Our Ford', an immediate attempt at shock, as people no longer worship God but hold the founder of a car manufacturing company as their deity. In this environment sterility is the key idea - no conception within a human body, no overwhelming emotions, no dirt, no ageing ro visible ...  Read the complete review

This book is getting on a bit now but it still is topical.Maybe moreso today than it ever was.It deals with cloneing something in the public eye alot now and also with how to deal with "primitive" cultures.The story is set in the future where everyone is genetically engineered and born In vitro apart from a few.It is about how the ...  Read the complete review

I read Brave New World as part of my English Literature O level (or was it the year before?) and I remember enjoying it but not too much else. I read it again recently and can now cast my adult brain over it. Again I really enjoyed it but I have some slightly different comments to make than most people. The story is about a supposed ...  Read the complete review