Task 1 I have chosen to read the book “Brave New World” by Aldous Huxley. It is a dystopian book about humanity in a future where there is no longer suffering. No one is born from parents anymore; instead, people are cultivated in large Breeding centres, from different castes deciding which tasks they’re going to do in life. The perfect drugs, called soma, are being every week to keep everyone happy, the economy is controlled to perfection, and promiscuity is considered a virtue. However, some people still live like humans lived hundreds of years ago, in their own reservations. One of them, named John, is taken to London, and is it through his eyes we see why this is a dystopia. Life now has no other meaning than eating, having sex, taking soma and working, and yet (and perhaps therefore), people are happy. In a world without suffering, there can be no art or higher meaning with life, and so John chooses to live the rest of his life in …show more content…
Since he apparently has all the time in the world, she has time to think about whether or not she has seen him before. If she has not seen him at school, she probably has not seen him at all; it is a sad truth that most of her social life takes place at school. Her spare time goes to school, even though it is not needed. She sometimes wonders how the friends of hers who go to a hundred different trainings and activities throughout the week, gets time to somehow do even more things at home than her. Her theory is that for everyone else, the day has two more hours to spend, perhaps hours that she spends sleeping. And yet, she would not want it otherwise. Her life right now is perhaps boring and the tiniest bit depressing, but boring also means predictable, and in a predictable life there are no nasty surprises. However, the boy slowly approaching her can change it all. Does she want that? Trade predictability for