* Are there any settings in this novel which you have found to be beautiful? or disturbing? or memorable? describe these settings and comment on why they were meaningful to you.
『A squat grey building of only thirty-four stories. Over the main entrance the words, CENTRAL LONDON HATCHERY AND CONDITIONING CENTRE, and , in a shield, the World State's motto, COMMUNITY, IDENTITY, STABILITY.
The enormous room on the ground floor faced towards the north. Cold for all the summer beyond the panes, for all the tropical heat of the room itself, a harsh thin light glared through the windows, hungrily seeking some draped lay figure, some pallid shape of academic goose-flesh, but finding only the glass and nickel and bleakly shining porcelain of a laboratory. Wintriness responded to wintriness. The overalls of the workers were white, their hands gloved with a pale corpse-coloured rubber. The light was frozen, dead, a ghost. Only from the yellow barrels of the microscopes did it borrow a certain rich and living substance, lying along the polished tubes like butter, streak after luscious streak in long recession down the work tables』
This passage was the most significant setting throughout the story. Starting the whole story, this setting was the most descriptive and memorable. The first paragraph depicted the state’s motto, which was community, identity, and stability. Later on the story, people kept saying this phrase, “Every one works for every one else. We can’t do without any one.” This represented the community of the world state. Also, identity was the caste system, Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, and Epsilon. Lastly, the people from the new world stabilized themselves by artificial incubation of human embryos using the fertilized ova and male gametes.
The second paragraph described the mass production of human beings. The description was so realistic that I could easily believe in. However, I felt somewhat bitter because human instinct of developing technology was so infinite and brutal. These days, scientists are obsessed with cloning and genetics. I was a little scared that there would be this “brave new world” after a century. Maybe this book is foreshadowing our future lives but I hope not. Living without true love, mercy, and other feelings would be terrible. The last three sentences of the second paragraph described human’s endless inspiration and curiosity toward the scientific and technologic development.
Throughout the story, the author, Aldous Huxley, excelled at every department such as biology, sociology, literature, and so on. I heard at that time when he was writing, people were inspired by the technologic inventions such as cars and radios. Also, it was the time when people started to question traditional morals and sex. Thus, I believed he himself was also curious that he made the setting as an imaginary future. However, although the content itself was very exaggerated, he conveyed what he believed in very well. The distopia is occurred by human instinct of development. With detailed descriptions from the beginning, the story was so credible to me that I was kept thinking about the future world.
Overall, this passage made me fall into this novel when I first opened the book cover. I thought it was very unique to write about the future. Since the descriptions were so true and detailed, I could make a movie in my head when I finished the book.
『A squat grey building of only thirty-four stories. Over the main entrance the words, CENTRAL LONDON HATCHERY AND CONDITIONING CENTRE, and , in a shield, the World State's motto, COMMUNITY, IDENTITY, STABILITY.
The enormous room on the ground floor faced towards the north. Cold for all the summer beyond the panes, for all the tropical heat of the room itself, a harsh thin light glared through the windows, hungrily seeking some draped lay figure, some pallid shape of academic goose-flesh, but finding only the glass and nickel and bleakly shining porcelain of a laboratory. Wintriness responded to wintriness. The overalls of the workers were white, their hands gloved with a pale corpse-coloured rubber. The light was frozen, dead, a ghost. Only from the yellow barrels of the microscopes did it borrow a certain rich and living substance, lying along the polished tubes like butter, streak after luscious streak in long recession down the work tables』
This passage was the most significant setting throughout the story. Starting the whole story, this setting was the most descriptive and memorable. The first paragraph depicted the state’s motto, which was community, identity, and stability. Later on the story, people kept saying this phrase, “Every one works for every one else. We can’t do without any one.” This represented the community of the world state. Also, identity was the caste system, Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, and Epsilon. Lastly, the people from the new world stabilized themselves by artificial incubation of human embryos using the fertilized ova and male gametes.
The second paragraph described the mass production of human beings. The description was so realistic that I could easily believe in. However, I felt somewhat bitter because human instinct of developing technology was so infinite and brutal. These days, scientists are obsessed with cloning and genetics. I was a little scared that there would be this “brave new world” after a century. Maybe this book is foreshadowing our future lives but I hope not. Living without true love, mercy, and other feelings would be terrible. The last three sentences of the second paragraph described human’s endless inspiration and curiosity toward the scientific and technologic development.
Throughout the story, the author, Aldous Huxley, excelled at every department such as biology, sociology, literature, and so on. I heard at that time when he was writing, people were inspired by the technologic inventions such as cars and radios. Also, it was the time when people started to question traditional morals and sex. Thus, I believed he himself was also curious that he made the setting as an imaginary future. However, although the content itself was very exaggerated, he conveyed what he believed in very well. The distopia is occurred by human instinct of development. With detailed descriptions from the beginning, the story was so credible to me that I was kept thinking about the future world.
Overall, this passage made me fall into this novel when I first opened the book cover. I thought it was very unique to write about the future. Since the descriptions were so true and detailed, I could make a movie in my head when I finished the book.
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