Reading Log
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley:
My big question posed during this second semester was, “What does the American experience mean to me?” However this book fulfilled the answer to this question and all pieces that accompany this question. In Brave New World a world of conformity, an extreme class system, and the common use of drugs to escape reality encompassed the answer. The American experience is composed of social status. On account of wealth, race, etc. conforming to others is a part of being accepted into society. Brave New World portrayed this through people absent of genetic alteration and exactness, spending life in exile; while those composed on common grounds “enjoyed” there life.
This book I thought was a perfect example of how a world could be taken and transformed with the extremes of profiling and conformity to show the bare exaggerated fundamentals of acceptance. Whether that be through respect, economic foundation, or actions. But how can this be associated with my view of the American experience? I believe that everyone has a choice, however skewed by media and even peer views, etc. As this society has been running reliably for a large amount of time, one odd member within society was able to transform the outlooks of other persons. In a society, more the teenage society, a commonality based around drugs, sex, and conformity proves that this book provided a detailed answer to what can be found in the American experience.
I would recommend this book on account of extreme fiction and a powerful metaphor. I believe anyone who reads this book will be able to make a quick connection to society and general, and the knowelege of extremes within it.
