The future is a vast, undefined thing that our society today does not seem to reach towards. Surely, we try to imagine what the future will be like. We imagine a world of possibilities – a dream world, per se. However, most see the future as something unreachable, something that will not affect us, so they don’t have to try to change it. The older generation feels this way in particular, but many of the youth around the world are beginning to be afraid of the future. They do want a change, but they do not have the tools to do so. The youth fear a future similar to the setting of Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, a future with no emotion, no individuality, and no true happiness. Huxley took an extreme risk with this book; he presents a society based on a communist ideology. As a result, it is one of the most banned and challenged books in America. Huxley published Brave New World with an intent to critique the negative views of the communist society our future will inevitably be. Huxley depicts communist viewpoints in the way the society is presented to make us …show more content…
It is not difficult to understand that the society in Brave New World regards sexual actions between everybody as normal. “Every one belongs to every one else,” is the mantra everyone in the society follow. Even the children partake in sexual play, as described by the garden scene. The society believes sexual purity ludicrous, and those refuse to practice this are viewed as different and strange and an outcast. People are treated as objects. Even the words “mother” and “father” are deemed as vulgar, disgusting words. Huxley uses this to show that this could someday be our future, that we would be prisoners to a society that deems sexual purity laughable. We will no longer be able to hold a special connection with a certain person in the