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J.J
03-11-2005, 05:33 PM
I found the book Brave New World to be a combination of amazing to the point of absolutly wrong. To take simple things in the time that the book was written and change them into how things were or could advance in science 600 years in the future is smart and in a way very intelligent. But to add chemicals or cut off oxygen is wrong and the way that these kids were made to live and survive. Even if the kids knew no other way of living and this was just the way of life, he was depriving these kids and these people of a normal live. But then again who desides what is normal. So again intelligent but wrong Huxley wrote a book that is just an opinion.<br>

Paul
05-24-2005, 06:07 PM
We have just finished studying BNW in class and a must say there are not many books that raise as many social issues that BNW does. The way society has tried to achieve a Utopia while succeding in creating a dystopia. The way soma and genetics is used has frightening relevance to the situation in todays world. BNW looks at mans quest for domination of the natural world which when looked at closely the reader is able to see in doing this there is virtually nothing left that is natural or hasnt been minipulated to suite the controllers wants of a world based around commerce.<br>Huxley was certainly a literary geniouse of his time and leaves us with the thought does true happieness lies in a persons choice to express their individuality and experience life for themselves.<br><br>Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn't nearly so spectacular as instability. And being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against misfortune, none of the picturesqueness of a struggle with temptation, or a fatal overthrow by passion or doubt. Happiness is never grand." <br><br>World Controller Mustapha