What is the book "Brave New World" about?

Question

I like books about the early 1900s in the cities. Anyone know of any books like that? Is that what the above book is like?

Answer 1

I've had to read this book twice for school.
It's a futuristic world where everyone takes a drug called "soma" and it makes them feel happy and carefree. Women do not get pregnant, instead there is a center where they have "test tube-type babies" that are sorted into different classes and there lives are basically predetermined for them.
You have to read a good bit into it before it gets good but it has a good ending.
It's similar to "The Giver." (except I think that "The Giver" was better.)

Answer 2

Have you ever read 1984? If you have you already have a general idea. In the "Brave New World" babies are grown in bottles instead of mothers, And raised by the state. The use of a drug called soma is used to fight depression , and it's use is encouraged. Sex is also encouraged at the youngest ages.
In this socialist state, all needs are cared for even the growing soma need. The children know exactly what they are going to be when they grow up because they are told. Religion is outlawed.

Everything is controlled in the state by the state. Most people think they live in a Utopia, (Soma helps the state convince them of that) But the main character knows something is missing, until he stumbles across an area that is not controlled by the state, this area isn't as advanced but the people are happier, and have no need of drugs.

This book thou written a long time ago is more contemporary then you can imagine. Please read it and mull over the new ideas it contains.

It is so contemporary that in 2004 for a man named Smith published "Consumer's Guide to A Brave New World "
about the Bio-ethics questions we face today. And refers to Huxley's book.

Answer 3

"Brave new world" is a projection in the future of a world where castes are established (ever heard of "a citizen lambda"? -Brave new world is the origin of that expression- and where every personal or social problem is solved bu a drug Aldous Huxley calls "soma".
Of course it turns out bad, as even the brave new world is far from being perfect!
Twenty years after that book was published, Huxley wrote "Brave new world revisited". Very interesting too.
Aldous Huxley is what we call a "maverick" in literature. His books, including Brave new world, are full of humour and they are also very clever, TO BE READ ABSOLUTELY.

Answer 4

No it is a book about our world today by Alex Huxley and it is a good one to read. I think that we have built images through textbooks which is the same thing that psychiatry is doing and that is called propaganda. I like to watch movies like the Matrix. I think you might find John Gattos book The History of Education very useful and might like it.

Answer 5

Aldous Huxley is the author. About the future under totalitarianism. His book 1984 is that and I think this one is similiar.

Answer 6

It was prophetic Sci Fi and satire set in the future. It doesn't fit your description of what you are seeking.