![]() I’m still trying to digest Huxley’s overall theme. It wasn’t funny any more and that took away a lot of my enjoyment of the story. I felt like he was a trained animal in a cage the entire time and I felt bad for him more than anything. I didn’t like the later half of the book, after John moved to London. I think it dragged on a bit, but it was a great example of ‘show, don’t tell’ for a writer. I could laugh at the ‘sign of the T’ and decanting and all that. I liked the book best at the beginning when the reader was learning about Huxley’s London. When Bernard goes crazy with his new-found fame toward the end, Helmholtz seems like the one grounded. ![]() Unlike Bernard, he indulged in some of the pleasures of the civilized world at first while keeping himself more grounded than characters like Lenina. I guess Helmholtz would be my favorite because he seemed more level-headed than the rest. ![]() ![]() I understand they were supposed to be that way, but it doesn’t make me like any of them. I didn’t particularly like any of the characters because they were so shallow. Then we would have had one character to latch onto a dog in the fight. I think the story would have been more impactful if John and Linda had been raised in a setting similar to the modern world (or whenever Huxley wrote the book). I wish John had been a bit more relatable, but his background was different from our own. They come from a world that’s so incredibly different from our own, that they should seem unreal. I liked it enough, though I’m not sure I’d call it a ‘favorite’ or ‘must read.’Īll of the characters were so over the top and crazy that they seemed unbelievable, but I think that was part of their charm. I guess there’s a fine balance to hit for this because I felt China Mieville didn’t give enough. I think there was a lot of setup so that the reader could understand the world the way Huxley saw it and for a while I did feel it dragged. The narrator really helped as he did a great job with the work. I didn’t expect this book to be so funny! Really, to be honest, I didn’t know what to expect. Needless to say, John has a hard time adjusting. He had been the odd-one-out among the savages for his learned ways and he’s the oddball among the civilized for his savage tendencies. While Linda is ecstatic to return, John has trouble adjusting to civilized life. Bernard decides to bring Linda and John back with him to London as a sort of social experiment. She has raised her son, John, on the sanctuary property. Bernard and Lenina find a woman named Linda who was previously a member of civilized society but who was shamed when she became pregnant. Shen her lover, Bernard, takes her to visit the savages in America, she’s more worried about the number of elevator squash courts at the hotel than how the trip will change her. In this world, Lenina Crowne has found peace and what she considers a happy life. In his dystopian world, the relationships between men and women have changed drastically and love is considered an antiquated idea. Or at least, that’s what Aldous Huxley believes. They will take Soma instead of alcohol and everyone will be happy. The civilized people will play elevator squash instead of tennis and will be decanted instead of born. Four hundred years from now, we’ll all be savages.
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