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Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley
dark
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Dystopia but "sexy"
Huxley meditates on the possibility humanity is lost to corporate pleasure and materialism by placing a "savage" (some kid who read Shakespeare) into an orgy and drug loving society to call them strumpets, argue for the necessity of emotion and sin, and ultimately die an outcast adored by the media.
It has interesting ideas (like industrialist Henry Ford becoming a religious figure a la Christ) but suffers from a mediocre plot and inevitable comparisons to 1984 for the sake of proving "society is getting worse because we're doing weed and ha ing casual sex instead of being beat up for saying the wrong thing" type surface level analysis.
Plot may not be the point of a dystopian novel, but it would have helped to potentially push some deconstruction into the minds of the other characters and maybe have them explore healthy sexuality or sobriety from materialism.
The Grand Inquisitor scene here is arguably stronger than O'Brien's scenes with Winston in 1984
Huxley meditates on the possibility humanity is lost to corporate pleasure and materialism by placing a "savage" (some kid who read Shakespeare) into an orgy and drug loving society to call them strumpets, argue for the necessity of emotion and sin, and ultimately die an outcast adored by the media.
It has interesting ideas (like industrialist Henry Ford becoming a religious figure a la Christ) but suffers from a mediocre plot and inevitable comparisons to 1984 for the sake of proving "society is getting worse because we're doing weed and ha ing casual sex instead of being beat up for saying the wrong thing" type surface level analysis.
Plot may not be the point of a dystopian novel, but it would have helped to potentially push some deconstruction into the minds of the other characters and maybe have them explore healthy sexuality or sobriety from materialism.
The Grand Inquisitor scene here is arguably stronger than O'Brien's scenes with Winston in 1984
Content Warnings
Graphic: Drug use, Sexual content, Suicide
Moderate: Violence
Minor: Police brutality