As the Book Club is reading Brave New World this month, I wondered if anyone has read Brave New World Revisited and what your thoughts are on it if you have.
As the Book Club is reading Brave New World this month, I wondered if anyone has read Brave New World Revisited and what your thoughts are on it if you have.
Last edited by Scheherazade; 04-12-2005 at 09:31 AM.
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"It is not that I am mad; it is only that my head is different from yours.”
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I know this is an old post, but might be helpful to others. Brave New World Revisited is worth the read especially as a follow up to reading Brave New World. It discusses central issues/themes in the novel as well as expounds on some of Huxley's philosophical contemplations.
I've read it, studied it, written on it. There's a lot there... a big chunk of it is Huxley looking back over the quarter century between 1932 (when _BNW_ was published) and 1958 (when _Revisited_came out), and basically saying "I told you so". He looks at how the Soviets and Nazis used many of the methods of social control he outlined in the original work, and how advertisers and propagandists in democracies use those same methods.
I could recommend other works parallel to these two, also.
The mass and majesty of this world, all
That carries weight and always weighs the same
Lay in the hands of others; they were small
And could not hope for help and no help came...
-W.H. Auden, "The Shield of Achilles"
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