"A Brave New World", by Aldous Huxley, uses a fine irony that calls into question the very foundations of society, being exposed to light the ills of a society in decline, pointing out its horror and its enormous vacuum. With an intellectual tone: Brave New World reflects on the reality we live in, a world plagued by war, famine, terrorism, where perhaps what is most desired by man is happiness and social stability. These are the two values Huxley transmits to us through Brave New World, in which he proposes travel to a future world where society is divided into castes (Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta and Epsilon), and in which the education of children is based the pavlovian conditioning and Hypnopaedia so that when they are adults they feel happy to belong to their caste and perform their jobs.
It is a world in which there are no feelings and no taboos, in which the most obscene words that can come out of a person's mouth are "father" or "mother", because the individuals are obtained from a process of fertilization in- vitro and where people will be governed for life by means of a drug called "soma". A world apparently perfect and ideal for its inhabitants, but whose stability will be put to the test when a "wild", that could be any one of us, tries to impose their way of life and thinking, but in the end realizes it is impossible to combat the social machine.
"Brave New World" is a very interesting proposal to read, because it is one of those books that make us think about the possible direction that a future society in which we live can take in. The novel shows through its characters, a society without values, without feelings, where the only thing that counts is to have fun and where the problems, if there are any, are resolved by taking "soma". This book shows that no society, as perfect as it may seem, has absolutely stability.
If we take notice, we will see that the author describes a word similar to ours, but the surprising thing is that this novel was written in 1932.
