Brave New World - Is it a warning

Aldous Huxley wrote Brave New World in the 1930s. He made many future predictions and many or most of them have already come true but not to the extent that he writes about. The society in Brave New World is significantly different to the present one, and to the society in Huxley’s time. Aldous Huxley wrote Brave New World not as a warning, but as something to look forward to. The people in Brave …

…no crimes, no pain, no worries and no complex decisions to make about life. They have been given life on a silver platter with everything they want and no desire for what they can’t get. They are happy with themselves, their jobs and their way of life. They have their freedom in their own state of mind, just like we do. This is a perfect world that we should be anticipating rather than dreading.