Brave New World - Aldous Huxley - Part 4

Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

2017 Reading Challenge - Day 158

  June 7, 2017 

Book 47 - Brave New World
Aldous Huxley (1932)
 Part 4 - 142-188
Reading Time - 1 hour

Well... our hero, Bernard, is the Savage's guardian and his esteem takes a big boost. Everybody wants to meet the Savage but... eventually the Savage refuses to cooperate and Bernard's status takes a big hit. The Savage, whose name is John, is quite disillusioned with the Brave New World. He had found a book back in his village of Shakespeare and reads it with avid fascination. Somewhere along the line, he has picked up some old world morals and this new world is just one big shock to his system after another.

This book does give me glimmers of The Hunger Games trilogy... the shallowness of the Brave New World folk. And sometimes, I get a glimmer of today... how we too are wrapped up in shallow pursuits of beauty and youth, games and status. Entertainment that has no depth to it... how we get lost in the television in the evenings, watching other people live their dreams (vacations, property renovations)... living vicariously in many ways.