Since A Brave New World was written about the future the novel does not refer to any events in history except for several breif mentions of Shakespeare's quotes . The author does however believe that certain responsibilities exist between certain groups in society. In the book lab workers create different types of embryo's in a lab according to the job that they are going to do when they grow up in life. Dumb, idiotic people are created to do service jobs such as cleaning and fixing things around their labs. While Alphas are created to be smart, intelligent and handsome, they are created to be leaders and presidents of their "civilization". Average people were made to work in the labs and create more embryo's. Also, people were not expected to pick one partner to mate with forever. They could sleep around with all the people they wanted to and it was considered correct. Maybe since this book was written in the time frame of the 1940's World War 2 affected Aldous Huxley when writing it. Since during the war people were expected to do certain jobs and act a certain way. Huxley, however, doesn't discriminate against black people or women at all.
No comments:
Post a Comment