Totalitarian Society In Brave New World

First published in 1932, Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World presents the totalitarian society of London in AF (after Ford) or in Gregorian calendar. Mixing technological advances with science, the dystopian novel discuss government control of the population, the possibility of Freedom and the over-rationalization of society.
Written years after the Great War, this novel anticipates the discussion of totalitarian societies that would become more frequent six years after its publication – with the rise of Nazism and Fascism and the Second World War in 1939. Beyond the political scenario, the book approaches the problematic of pharmacy industry and the medication of happiness. Soma, the drug used by the government to keep the citizens content, demonstrates how this society uses entertainment as a control device more than physical force or violence.

John was born in a “natural way”, unlike all the other characters, he was raised separated from all control and medication – his only contact with the establishment is Shakespeare. His “purity” and sudden insertion into a different environment may resemble an investigation, idea reinforced by the Resident World Controller for Western Europe.
Mr. Savage expresses that Mustapha Mond, after sentencing Bernard and Helmholtz to exile, said that “he wanted to go on with the experiment”. This statement, together with the scientific discussion in the book, leads us to believe that an experimentation is also taking place in this novel. The author was familiarized with the procedures of the scientific method since he ought to graduate in medical studies if it was not by his eye disease. This contact with medicine may have influenced, or at the very least, approximated the author to the scientific approach, which we can see resonating in the