In many cases when you read a novel you may find comparisons between the "fictional" society and your realistic one. The author may concsciously or unconsciously create similarities between these two worlds. The novelist can forsee the future and write according to this vision.
Brave New World, a novel by Aldous Huxley was written at a tine in history when war had ravaged much of the nation, Depression was blanketing society, and people’s wills were being put to the test. Science had become an overwhelming force for better or for worse. People had witnessed science saving and preventing millions of lives with vaccinations and such, but on the contrary, had also witnessed it kill with horrifying “factory-like” efficiency in WW I (the age of machine guns and chemical warfare). Brave New World is not intended to be a happy book, it is more Huxley’s way of describing what he believes is comin
I recognize that it is hard to see Canada becoming like Brave New World, and therefore it may seem like it never could. There would be much psychological resistance if people were told that they had to live in the ways of the World State. Most people would not want to be a part of a society like that and it may seem as though we are far from becoming that way; however, I do not see society choosing to become like the Brave New World. Instead, I believe that if we keep going in the direction in which we are headed with technology and genetics, a society similar to the World State is inevitable.
Brave New World also dramatizes the conflict between scientific Theory and religion. Science is portrayed as religion as the “manifestations of self-evident truths”. Henry Ford is used as the religious outlet for the World State. He represents a religion that allows the World State rulers to rob the peo
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