Brave New World!

This is my first blog for my first novel titled Brave New World by Aldous Huxley.


I was very unsure of what novel to choose to start off my senior study. This book was then recommended to me and soon after reading the first few chapters, my interest for it increased tremendously! The story jumps right into setting of a futuristic world inside the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre. The director is giving a tour to a group of students in a factory that produces human beings. Humans are now being born in large sets of identical twins out of the womb. It all seems fascinating at first, when we get this glimpse into our future where scientists have discovered more of the answers that have made our society incredibly, scientifically advanced, but this isn't a utopia; it's a severe dystopia.

Eggs from an ovary get branched to form multiple identical twins, multiple meaning hundreds, even  thousands. The later fetuses travel on conveyors belts in jars for 200 some days while they mature. The machines are designed to act like the womb. Different fetuses are matured in different ways depending on which caste they will enter. Yes, the world people are now divided into five, strict castes: Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, and Epsilon.

My imagination goes wild while reading this book. What if our world was really like this? Human brains are actually being dumbed down so that they will fit into an appropriate caste. They don't want everyone to learn. People are now born, not just without the opportunity to learn, but without the ability and there is no choice. How very unfortunate of a life. Though this is a society we could one day become. Science is advancing every single minute. Anything is possible. We could easily slip into this world where humans are created all alike and exactly the way they should to form a perfect functioning society. Wouldn't life be easier if everyone was created to do exactly what they were going to do? It's a bit scary, this future.

Everything is predestined. I feel like this will play a major part of the book. One is created so exactly the same as all the others in a caste where he or she will stay forever, performing a job that's predestined, living a whole life that's predestined. I'm very curious to find out what the higher castes, the more intellectual individuals, have to say about all of this. I am sure that soon enough someone in the story will be against this entire inhumane process.

As you can see I'm very eager to continue the novel. "What if" questions constantly run through my mind and this novel triggers many more of them. If I were put into this society, I hope I would be created as one of the elites, or maybe as one of the engineers, so I would at least have the opportunity to question, to create, and to learn. I'm very excited to see where the author takes this novel, it may soon become one of my favorites!

Until next blog....