Humans are meant to move - and not just physically. And, sooner or later, not having a destination in life will make us restless. When you can have everything at the snap of your fingers, there’s nothing to strive for in life. But what on earth’s the good of being pierced by an article about a Community Sing, or the latest improvement in scent organs?” “Words can be like X-rays, if you use them properly–they’ll go through anything. Helmholtz feels a higher calling in his writing, but he can’t access his “latent power” while writing the drivel his job requires: Bernard wants a traditional, monogamous relationship - a big no-no in his promiscuous society - preferably with the beautiful but all-too-well-conditioned hatchery worker Lenina Crowne. Two of the book’s protagonists, the psychologist Bernard Marx and writer Helmholtz Watson, see through this veil of cheap satisfaction. As a result, everyone is easygoing, compliant, and constantly on a drug- or orgasm-high - and no one is ever alone. From birth, people are sleep-conditioned to stay in their caste, to prioritize easy pleasures, like “soma,” the perfect drug, and sex, and to consume as much as they can. Humans are grown in bottles as needed to perform certain tasks, ranging from smart Alphas to “semi-moron” Epsilons. In the foreword to the 2007 edition of the book, Margaret Atwood wrote: “In a world in which everything is available, nothing has any meaning.” The London described in the book is such a world. If you want to save this summary for later, download the free PDF and read it whenever you want.ĭownload PDF Lesson 1: A perfect world in which you can have everything will inevitably be devoid of any meaning. We hope you’ll enjoy the combination of the plot points, and the lessons we can learn from them. Therefore, we decided to double the length of our summary to accommodate more important ideas. Note: This is a book with historical significance.
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