The Mechanization of Mankind in Huxley’s Dystopia
Words: 1533 Pages: 5 3904One of the unavoidable questions faced when interpreting Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World is whether the novel represents a dystopian or utopian vision of the future. The World State’s conditioning of its citizens has two direct effects: firstly, it forms the basis of a perfectly engineered society where every person is perfectly content with their social position; and secondly, it eradicates the foundations of human liberty and spontaneity. Utopia is achieved by reducing man to machine. But freedom implies incompleteness, […]