Malpais brave new world

First published back in 1932, British author Aldous Huxley’s novel ‘Brave New World’ quickly became hailed as a literary classic and has certainly stood the test of time ever since.  However the novel has not gone without its controversies, having been banned in Ireland and India for some time as well as attempts to have it removed from a number of school’s syllabuses along with an accusation of plagiarism from Polish author Antoni Smuszkiewicz.

DLS Synopsis:
The year is 2540 AD (or 632 AF as it is now known), and the world is a very different place from our own time.  The population is now unified under the global citizenship of the World State, where the population numbers are controlled by the exclusive use of Human Hatcheries and Conditioning Centres.  As such, the population is permanently set at no more than an absolute global limit of two billion individuals at any one time, allowing for a rich and plentiful society for everyone.

Society and has become totally fabricated from birth all the way to death, with the World State designating the position in society that each individual will sit, with manipulation of the foetuses suppressing the lower ra


MAIN CHARACTERS

 


Bernard Marx
is the most important character in the first part of the book. Huxley doesn’t describe him physically in detail. Bernard is thin and very small, even though he is an Alpha, who are supposed to be bigger than the normal size. Bernard looks like a Gamma person. He is an outsider, because he doesn’t feel so confident as the other people, he’s never asked for dates, and the lower castes don’t sometimes obey him as they should. Everyone regards him as an odd person, and they say that, when he was still bottled, someone accidentally poured alcohol in his blood surrogate; this is the explanation of why he is so strange. A lot of people avoid him because of his unsavoury reputation. Bernard is also sensitive, he gets angry when he hears Henry Foster talking about Lenina as if she were a piece of meat. Bernard is very insecure, not like the rest of the Brave New World citizens; he likes to be alone and think. His friend is Hemholtz Watson; they both get on well because they feel similar. Hemholtz also doesn’t adapt himself well in the society. Bernard is very shy, specially with girls but in the end, Bernard packs himself u
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