Brave New World by Aldous Huxley is an intreastiong novel. It's about a future society where humans are born literally in test tubes and are divided into social classes.The highest class is the alpha and the lowest is the epsilon. After being divided into a class babies are "conditioned", often painfully, in order to have personalities and intellect according to their class. A type of brainwashing in a way. In this world, everyone in their social class is more or less the same except for a man named Berand Marx. Benard is in the highest social class, alphas, but feels like an outsider because he does not look like one. Also in this utopia there seems to almmost be a religous following of Henty Ford. This may be linked to the fact that he started assembly lines and it seems that humans are being created on them.
All in all, I like this book so far. It makes me think of the future of the world one hundread or two hundread years from now. At first it seems perfect, except that humans are made in test tubes. There seems to be no war, poverty or violence but when i read on I started to see the flaws. Such as using predestination to determine who a person is going to be. The philosophy that everyone belongs to everyone also disturbs me because there are no monogamous relationships and no real emotional bonds. Which makes me wonder human relationships will change over the years.
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