The characters are zombies devoid of all these factors that are messy emotions, feelings, ideas that are just robots as cold as laboratories in which they were born and where they work, there would be no adventure, not the same event, while being programmed.
Much of his work deals with the conflict between the interests of the individual and society, often focusing on the problem of self-realization within the context of social responsibility.
These themes reached their zenith in Huxley’s Brave New World, published in 1932.
His most enduring work imagined a fictional future in which free will and individuality have been sacrificed in deference to complete social stability.
Brave New World marked a step in a new direction for Huxley, combining his skill for satire with his fascination with science to create a dystopian world in which a totalitarian government controlled society by the use of science and technology..
Huxley anticipated all of these developments the dangers of totalitarian governments had been played out to tragic effect in World War II, and during the great struggle of the Cold War and the arms race which so powerfully underlined the role of technology in the modern world.
Hitler came to power in Germany a year after the publication of Brave New World.
World War II broke out six years after.
The atomic bomb was dropped thirteen years after its publication, initiating the Cold War.
Huxley’s novel seems, in many ways, to prophesize the major themes and struggles that dominated life and debate in the second half of the twentieth century, and continue to dominate it in the twenty-first.
While there are multiple moments of crisis throughout the plot, the climax occurs during the extended debate between Mustapha Mond and the Savage.
The debate focuses on the crux of the novel, modern humanity's dilemma between the old and the new - betwee
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