Human beings must embrace the world of science and complacency, or live like a savage in an empty desert. Though the Brave New World was w ritten in 1932, its unashamed dualism feels eerily contemporary. Partly, because I didn’t like books with sad endings, and I had decided that this was one would have a sad ending.Īnyhow, now well in my twenties, I’ve been through several antiutopian classics 1984, The Handmaiden’s Tale and Fahrenheit 451– and I thought it was time to read this one. Partly, because it was one of those books that bandied about by the really ‘cool’ teenage boys. “īrave New World wasn’t a book I expected I would like. Over the main entrance the words, CENTRAL LONDON HATCHERY AND CONDITIONING CENTRE, and, in a shield, the World State’s motto, COMMUNITY, IDENTITY, STABILITY. “A squat grey building of only thirty-four storeys.
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