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Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited (P.S.)
by Aldous Huxley

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  <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17820173?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review"><h3>My review</h3></a>
  rating: 5 of 5 stars<br/>I don't compose the greatest reviews by any means, but i have decided to give it a try. Brave New World was a great book to read. The technique used to control and keep people from having critical thoughts were very interesting, and in some ways can be compared to the mass media and mass entertainment that we are exposed to in our daily lives. The characters in the story when born are divided into 5 different caste groups, Alphas- live lavish liefs styles and don't have to work that hard, Betas- have semi-lavish liefs and are servants to the Alphas. Deltas, Gammas and Epsilons are dysfunctional mindless slaves that work highly physical and low intellectual jobs because they are conditioned to be this way. The main character Bernard is an outcast in his group(hes and Alpha) because of his short and slender stature people question if hes and Alpha at all. Even though his life is filled with sex and excessive drug taking Bernard is unhappy with his life, he fells lonely and insecure which causes him to go on a trip to the savage world. Bernard returners with a man that they call a savage, Bernards popularity grows and he becomes what he once hated: which is a conceded over-egotistical jerk.<br/><br/>Conclusion: I highly recommend this to anyone who likes compelling, unique, disturbing, anti-utopia books. This book is not gory in any physical way, its horrifying in its imagery of a mentally controlled society which is conditioned from birth not to love, not care, not feel as individuals but to contribute as a whole because every belongs to everyone else.      
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** spoiler alert ** I don't compose the greatest reviews by any means, but i have decided to give it a try. Brave New World was a great book to read. The technique used to control and keep people from having critical thoughts were very interesting, and in some ways can be compared to the mass media and mass entertainment that we are exposed to in our daily lives. The characters in the story when born are divided into 5 different caste groups, Alphas- live lavish liefs styles and don't have to work that hard, Betas- have semi-lavish liefs and are servants to the Alphas. Deltas, Gammas and Epsilons are dysfunctional mindless slaves that work highly physical and low intellectual jobs because they are conditioned to be this way. The main character Bernard is an outcast in his group(hes and Alpha) because of his short and slender stature people question if hes and Alpha at all. Even though his life is filled with sex and excessive drug taking Bernard is unhappy with his life, he fells lonely and insecure which...more

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