Aldous Huxleys Brave New World - Book Report/Review Example

John thus becomes a modern tragic hero, is a warning to what modernity, consumerism and mass production can do to a humane, feeling man. The satirical tone of the novel, describing the scientific achievements of human cloning, rapid maturation and prenatal conditioning that make live birth, human interference and family bonding in the lives of people, evokes a dystopia over excessive emphasis on technology and production. It depicts an ultramodern society that dehumanizes through the dearth of theology and family, the fixation for corporeal happiness, and the abuse of technology.

People are brought up in test tubes rather than in mother's womb the government dictating every stage of their growth, from the embryonic stage, placing each new human into a particular class, such as Alpha, Beta, and so on. These embryos are chemically treated to quicken or to slow down their physical and mental development. Repeating slogans in the ears of the sleeping children, the government can force people to accept their functions in this new world thus making it "safe" to produce human clones lacking in individual factors.

Every person is trained to love Henry Ford, their icon, and soma, a marvel drug that produces heavenly elation allowing people to "escape from reality" for a long while without any awful upshots. There are "feelies--" movies that stir its viewers not only audio-visually but also with a sense of touch. Sexual looseness is treated as a social responsibility and people are entitled to have sexual fun from a hoard of sexual partners. Medical science protects the youth of everyone until death. No one finds interest in traditional art or religion, as people never suffer or have metal torments that art and religion presume.

Bernard, the Alpha plus psychologist who is considered an outcast in the World State because of the accidental injection of alcohol in his fetus in his pre-natal stage, and his girl-friend, Lenina Crowne, the injection worker at the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre, take a trip to a Savage Reservation, where people are permitted to live without the modern facilities such as soma, birth control, and helicopters. Here, they meet John, known as the Savage, a thinking young boy, who has read Shakespeare and observed primordial religious rites, and Linda, John's mother originally from the cultured and urbane world, who had been living in exile in the Reservation since her illicit relationship and pregnancy.

John and Linda are brought back to the New World, John, becoming a star. But the culture divide of the two worlds - between the Savage, Indian and and the suave, refined and urbane New World - shocks John so much that after the death of his mother, he finally cuts himself off from one and all. Still beleaguered by spectators in his den, he commits suicide in the end. As a child, John, the Savage hated his sexually licentious mother's liaison with a Pueblo man, Pop. The Pueblo women also protested to her promiscuous relation with their husbands, and flogged her in her bed.

An angry John had wounded the hand of one of the fuming women, and endured whipping to. He had