How Does John Doe Create A Dystopia In Brave New World

“O Brave New World, that has such people in it.”

The novel Brave New World by Aldous Huxley is both an interesting and a challenging read. I was forced to read this novel in my Senior English class, but after about chapter 2, I became very interested in the crazy atmosphere the novel created. I would recommend this novel to anyone who is age 12 and up. Brave New World shows the results of a futuristic dystopia that bases their everyday lives off of drugs, sex, and technology. The novel explores both the ups and down of a totalitarianism by showing how it affects different members of society. Some background of the main characters: Bernard is an Alpha but doesn’t possess all the qualities that a typical Alpha does. He is short and not as good-looking which makes him question the society he lives in. John lived on the Savage reservation but has parents that lived in London. John

Throughout the story, you can see that this character represents a typical human in our society. And finally Lenina, she is the woman who sleeps with every man who will talk to her. She causes both John and Bernard lots of problems throughout the story because of her beauty and way of thinking.

Throughout the story the main characters Bernard, Lenina, and John have troubles fitting in with the technology and lifestyle of the society. In Huxley’s created world, people are created through science and not childbirth. Each child is created with a specific job and lifestyle already planned for them. They will be designated to one of the caste: Alpha, Beta, Delta, Gamma, and Epsilon. The caste represent groups in society, Alpha being the highest, Beta the second, and so on. As John and Bernard get more and more obvious with their differences with the