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Thrown into a "Utopia" where everything is perfect and emotions, close relationships, and free thinking are abolished, John sets out to fight against the government for the right to think how he wants and for the freedom to feel how he wants. In this new world that Huxley creates thinking for yourself is forbidden and family and close interpersonal relationships are taboo. Huxley 's prophetic view of the future is as true today as it was in his day. He eerily predicted the path that society is destined to take if it doesn't change the course it's on now. He shows what happens when the government is given too much power and acts "for the good of the people" and raises the question "How far is too far?" Brave New World is a wonderful piece of literature that explicitly describes what exactly happens and has happened when people give up their free rights for a bit of security.
In a world where disease and war are long ago eradicated and everyone is conditioned how to think and feel for the ''stability of society,'' one man dares to fight against the establishment. John fights against what is popular for what he believes to be everyone's inalienable rights of free will and emotion. He is pitted against everyone in this ''Utopia.'' Even his own friends Bernard Marx, and Helmholtz Watson, and the love of his life Lenina Crowne don't understand the concept of freewill and emotion: the very things he's fighting for. John is all alone in this foreign land and the only one who understands him at all believes that free will and emotions are the very core of everything wrong in society.
"A fantastic racy narrative, full of much excellent satire and literary horseplay." - Forum
