Brave New World

This is my second entry in which I'm gonna talk about the chapters one to three of Brave New World, in terms of the setting. First, the most important fact, about time, is that the story is placed in year 632 A.F. and that Huxley mentions they started counting since the introduction of the T-model, it means, it was year 0. In relation to time, the history is a controversial topic in the book, the World Controllers mention history as useless information, "History is bunk" said by the Controller (Pg 29, Brave New World, A. Huxley). The society and the Controllers don't like history or religion because both of them are dangerous and corrupting. If people start to take into account the past, they would be out of the present time and would want to change several things of the present, so is a problem for them. Now, space makes an outstanding role in the development of the story. There are plenty of facts, but I'm gonna start with places. Chapter 1 begins in t...

This blog has a purpose to share my thoughts about this relevant book written by Aldous Huxley in 1932, which awake many interests in working about utopian and dystopian topics and I'll like to discuss our progress in this English book. Regarding the introductions written by Margaret Atwood and David Bradshaw, they give us a preview of the story that comes later. Apart from all the details that the authors of the introductions mention, I consider that a very important one is the reason why Huxley wrote this text; in the year of 1926, Huxley visited the United States because he thought the most dangerous consequence of First World War was the American World domination. So, is curious noticing that Huxley included Henry Ford as governor because he read a book that Ford wrote called "My Life and Work" and the assembly models called Huxley´s attention and generate certain admiration of Henry´s empire. I like how they describe this "perfect" world, and I find sho...