Who hasn’t pictured a Utopia in their heads before, a perfect world? It’s most likely that several of us have in some point of our lives. We all want a perfect world. It might be different in my eyes the way you picture it but it would be perfect for you. That’s the way Aldous Huxley pictured his world in his book Brave New World.
The way it starts is crazy! Almost in a language I couldn’t even understand. The mood of the story is gloomy, dark, and scary. Even though this is supposed to be the “Perfect World” it gives you a feeling that would make you want to think the world you live in right now is perfect.
Well let me give you background info on it. Kids who have sex games, people who are created from one cell, and when they sleep they have a recorded message telling them how good it is to be an Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, or an Epsilon. That is what the characters such as Lenina think of as a perfect world.
Lenina is what we would call an ordinary citizen who, in that world it is okay to have sexual relationships with everyone as long as they take their “birth control pills”. Bernard, well he is an outcast in that society, a normal guy in ours. This book makes you think if we actually need the perfect society, I think we are perfect just the way we are. This book just reassures me I love this world. I am really glad I read this book, just to make sure I won’t change my mind any time soon.
