Brave New World is a 1931 social science fiction novel by Aldous Huxley. It was written while living in Sanary-sur-Mer, France, in the four months from May to August 1931. The novel is often compared to George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four.
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Brave New World is a 1931 social science fiction novel by Aldous Huxley. The novel is often compared to George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four. The title Brave New World derives from Miranda’s speech in William Shakespeare’s The Tempest, Act V, Scene I: O wonder!How many goodly creatures are there here!How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world,That has such people in’t. The story’s protagonist, Mustapha Mond, is named after Sir Alfred Mond, the Controller of Western Europe at the time of the novel’s publication. The events of the Depression in the UK in 1931 persuaded the author to assert that stability was the ultimate need if civilisation was to survive the present crisis. Brave New world was inspired by the utopian novels of H. G. Wells, including A Modern Utopia and Men Like Gods. HUXley used the setting and characters in his science fiction to express anxieties about the fast-paced world of the future, particularly the fear of losing individual identity in a fast- paced world of fast food and fast food chains. In 1999, the Modern Library ranked Brave NewWorld at number 5 on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. In 2003, Robert McCrum, writing for The Observer, included the novel chronologically at number 53 in \”the top 100 greatest novels of all time\”, and the novel was listed at number 87 on The Big Read survey by the BBC.
The scientific futurism is believed to be appropriated from Daedalus by J. B. S. Haldane and The Sleeper Awakes by D. Lawrence. The book was written while living in Sanary-sur-Mer, France, in the four months from May to August 1931. It was Huxly’s fifth novel and first dystopian work, and he had already established himself as a writer and social satirist. He was a contributor to Vanity Fair and Vogue magazines, and had published a collection of his poetry and four successful satirical novels: Crome Yellow, Antic Hay, Those Barren Leaves, and Point Counter Point. He said that he had been having a little fun pulling the leg of Wells, but then he \”got caught up in the excitement of own ideas. \” Unlike the most popular optimistic utopian novels of the time, Huxleys sought to provide a frightening vision of thefuture. The family system will disappear; society, sapped at its very base, will have to find new foundations; and Eros, beautifully and irresponsibly free, will flit like a gay butterfly from flower to flower through a sunlit world. In vast state incubators, rows upon rows of gravid bottles will supply the world with the population it requires. In the book’s earlier book’s characters, Mr. Scogan describes an \”impersonal generation\” that will take the place of Nature’s hideous system.
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