Brave New World by Aldous Huxley in 1932

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley in 1932

Brave New World is a dystopian fiction story written by Aldous Huxley in 1932. The novel is written in a futuristic world state, which the author identifies as AF 632, which stands for “After Ford,” with Ford referring to Henry Ford’s motor assembly line.

The first chapter of the book opens with students on a tour of the conditioning center. The director of the center explains to them Bokanovsky’s process. This cloning process involves the conditioning of the specimens to separate them into the social hierarchy he calls the Caste system. The second chapter mostly revolves around the conditioning process the children are taken through called the Neo-Pavlovian Conditioning. In the third chapter, the students on tour are introduced to children in the facilities that are engaging in sexual activity, and the director explains erotic play is encouraged. In chapter four, the author presents two characters that work in the facility and how the social caste system has impacted their relationship. The fifth chapter shows the two characters from the previous section Bernard and Lenina, on a trip together, which involved engaging in religious ceremonies and sexual acts. Chapters six through nine, the author describes the experiences the two characters have on their holiday, and they get to meet other characters who live in a different world from theirs. Chapter ten ends in the characters return home.

In the book, Huxley introduces the reader to a society that is modeled around science and advanced technology. Emotions are conditioned out of the humans from an early age to perpetuate a society without human connection or long-lasting relationships because the culture dictates that everybody belongs to everybody.