Brave New World is a dystopian novel by English author Aldous Huxley , written in and published in Huxley followed this book with a reassessment in essay form, Brave New World Revisited , and with his final novel, Island , the utopian counterpart. This novel is often compared as an inversion counterpart to George Orwell 's It has landed on the American Library Association list of top banned and challenged books of the decade since the association began the list in O wonder!
How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world , That has such people in 't. Shakespeare's use of the phrase is intended ironically, as the speaker is failing to recognise the evil nature of the island's visitors because of her innocence. Translations of the title often allude to similar expressions used in domestic works of literature: the French edition of the work is entitled Le Meilleur des mondes The Best of All Worlds , an allusion to an expression used by the philosopher Gottfried Leibniz [ 13 ] and satirised in Candide, Ou l'Optimisme by Voltaire Brave New World was Huxley's fifth novel and first dystopian work.
A short passage in Crome Yellow foreshadows Brave New World , showing that Huxley had such a future in mind already in Scogan, one of the earlier book's characters, describes an "impersonal generation" of the future that will "take the place of Nature's hideous system. In vast state incubators, rows upon rows of gravid bottles will supply the world with the population it requires. The family system will disappear; society, sapped at its very base, will have to find new foundations; and Eros, beautifully and irresponsibly free, will flit like a gay butterfly from flower to flower through a sunlit world".
Huxley said that Brave New World was inspired by the utopian novels of H. He wrote in a letter to Mrs. Arthur Goldsmith, an American acquaintance, that he had "been having a little fun pulling the leg of H.
Wells" but then he "got caught up in the excitement of [his] own ideas". Huxley referred to Brave New World as a "negative utopia", somewhat influenced by Wells's own The Sleeper Awakes dealing with subjects like corporate tyranny and behavioural conditioning and the works of D.
