GregJohnson

Sorry I had trouble logging in over the weekend . . .

Anyway, the society in Brave New World is a world that has gone wrong. The government of this world found a way to force a certain world view on everybody, while the people who refuse to comply to this new view - like the savage - are ignored and persecuted. When Lenina first went to the "savage reservation," the officals are scorning the savages. But there is where the irony begins. The "savages," having been left alone for who kn ows how many years, are actually more civilized than the rest of the people. They have maintained a sense of individuality that the rest of the "brave new world" lacks. Remember, in the brave new world, "Everybody belongs to everybody else." Eventually, when the savage sees the outside world, he is confused and , although not expressivly mentioned, shocked. I think that the savage is shocked that we allowed automation to replace pnatural processes which they had been allowed to do for years. Overall, Brave New World serves as a warning to all the developed countries of the world today: Automation, machines, and computers have indeed made our lives simpler and easier. However, when everything becomes automated, we instead lose our civilization, our devlopment, and our culture and become slaves to machines. There are laws to prevent people from becoming slaves to other people. We, however, must choose whether or not we become slaves to machines. This is the main idea of Brave New World.

     The beginning of Brave New World appears to be almost the opposite of what one thinks when someone says the words. One would think a "brave new world" would mean some world that is drastically different, for the better, from our world, such as a world without pollution, crime, or war. Instead, the author takes the reader to this place where people are being brainwashed. Brainwashing is the fist sign that something about this "brave new world" has gone terribly wrong. Instead of an ideal world, the Britain described so far in the book (because the author specifies that we are in London) appears more like the book 1984. I would not be suprised if a future chapter introduces us to some totalitarian government.