What Brave New World gets right: Brave New World is a terrifying portrayal of what society could be like- and, in some ways, what it is like today. John struggles to enter the “civilized” society, and Bernard and Lenina get caught up in the ensuing chaos. This science fiction novel imagines a “utopia” where humans are not born but decanted in bottles, there are no families, and “everyone belongs to everyone else.” In the midst of this, two high class members of society, Bernard and Lenina, encounter someone known as a “savage” who has been raised outside of the new social norms (John).
For Banned Books Week in September/October, the library book club chose to read a literary classic that has often been challenged: Brave New World by Aldous Huxley.
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