What is more important, freedom or happiness? This is the question that stayed in my mind after finishing Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. If you have never been free, would you understand what freedom is? Will you be willing to give up your personal freedom to end pain?
In the New Word the idea of freedom does not exist, so it is not missed. When the main character appears half way through the story, the question gets asked.
His name is John the Savage. He grew up in the “Old World” and then moves to the “New World”. In the slightly depressing world described in the book, there are two different types of characters, those seeking happiness and those seeking freedom. However, sometimes it is a bit hard to identify which characters desire which. The author likes the ambiguity.
This brings me to my next point. One complication in reading this book is the vagueness of the language that the author uses to tell the story. Many key events are described using metaphors or with barely any words at all. However this also allows the readers to use their imagination and take the book to different places, something I enjoyed.
I would recommend this book to anyone looking for a slightly complicated topic of reading or anyone looking for a quick read between series.
This "New world" how much different is it from the "Old world"? If so would the "Old world" be better than the new world
ReplyDeleteThis book sounds very confusing to me because like Javahn says the old world appears to be better than the new world so why would would anyone want to move to the new world also I am a little bit confused by what you are saying with metaphors, is most of the book kind of up to your imagination or are just tidbits up to you?
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