Is the Novel Brave New World Utopia or Dystopia?

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Is the novel ’Brave New World’ utopia or dystopia? ’’Brave New World’’ a novel by Aldous Huxley (1894-1963),published in 1932. This novel is about dystopian state in the 7th century AF (after Ford). Since I have already stated that this novel is dystopia it is now the time to explain my opininon on the main question of this essay. ’’The action of the story develops round Bernard Marx , an unorthodox and therefore unhappy Alpha-Plus, who visits a New Mexican Reservation with Lennina Bheta girl, and he brings back a Savage to London. The role of Bernard later takes John the Savage.’’(Drabble,2000:130) Utopia is a place where every human being has a great life without any worries. People live like in some sort of paradise.Wouldn’t that be nice ? However , dystopia is a place where utopia is broken, where something is really wrong. Like in this novel ’’Brave New World’’ society is divided into castes. There are five castes and they are named by the first letters of Greek alphabet: Alpha, Bheta , Gamma, Delta, Epsilon.But before clarification of the castes , first we have to say that in this ’’perfect society’’ human beings are not born in the usuall way. Children are genetically bred in incubators and while they are still in the ’’bottles’’ they are divided into castes. There is even Bokanovsky procees which Director explains nicely in the first chapter:’One egg, one embryo, one adult-normality. But a bokanovskified egg will bud,will proliferate,will divide. From eight to ninety-six buds, and every bud will grow into a perfectly formed embryo, and every embryo into a full-sized adult.Making ninety-six human beings grow where only one grew before. Progress. Bokanovsky's Process is one of the major instruments of social stability!" ( Huxley,1932:2) The main purpose of Bokanovsky process is to have a large number of labour force, who are happy to be what they

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