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We are interested in the pedagogical aspects of BNW, e.g. the education of the Delta children (when they're confronted with flowers and electro-shocks).Named conditioning!
The topic is very interesting,especially how you can manipulate people and influence peoples lives.
Things like real love, which are normal and important for us are suppressed in the BNW for the sake of stability. Usual actions in the BNW like frequently having a new partner is not accepted in our society.
What do YOU think??

We think, in general "Brave New World" is a quite interesting book. It is kind of fun to read a book which is totaly fictional, but also near to reality of the year 2002.
We think that it's unbelievable
that Aldous Huxley thought about things like cloning, legal drugs or the perfect world/man.
I mean the book was written in 1932.
But if we think of conditioning in this book, it starts to get crazy.
You could also see a connection between the time of AF(after Ford) and today. Compare the Savage Reservation with reservations for Indians.
But after all we can say that we were interested in reading "Brave New World".

cya Steffi, Daniel, Sebastian

the topic of the book was quiet good, because it was a vision how our future could be like one day. our technology is already very far developed and if we don't use it responsible and stop thinking of the individuals we are like roboters! if we don't take care, our whole development will go in the wrong direction.
mankind isn't allowed to supress and manipulate some of its members just to have a perfect controllsystem. if our world was like that all emotions and feelings would doom. it's obvious that such a society could only survive if their members are totally supressed and manipulated by some mighty and cleared up controllers what you can see on on the example of the savage.
It can`t be right if only several people have the possibility to controll whole mankind because of the human rights.
People are forced to do what the controllers want and do not have an own will to do what they would prefer if the possibility was given to them.
So, the book is a warning to our society and we should take it as serious to prevent that our society becomes like that!!!

Hi there!
Now I'm at home and thought that I could give you my impressions of the book "Brave new world".
It was very interesting for me to read the book- well it was not boring!
I also liked the padagogical thinking of Brave new world...
It is somehow a frightening book and I am glad that it is just a book and not the reality- (who knows what the future will bring to the world!!)
What do you think??
Leonie

I think all of the book was very interesting, there was nothing boring in the book! But I think it was a bit abstract that everyone needs soma so much and that there were just some exeptions like Bernard. I'm glad that the our time isn't like in the book! But I think it's interesting and unbelievable that the author was in some points right in his opinion about the future(like drugs, conditioning...)!

Bye Steffi

During the reading of the book we have found some interesting points:
1) The author tells about topics that are up-to-date still now, we think.
2) The extreme topicality of the themes.
3) The drugs,
4)clonation
It is astonishing to think that these aspects were imagined and discussed by a man of that time (1932) and are the same problems that we have to face nowadays!!!!!
Do you think we are living in a sort of distopian world?
For the writer these are aspects of an imaginary world but for us they are real "problems" of our life.
What do you say?

Our experience about this book is very particular, because for us it is the first time that we have read an original English book.
What we like about BNW is the capacity of the writer to theorize about an imaginary society very similar to the totalitarianism of the great powers of 1900. It's also to appreciate the writer's fantasy when he creates the particular environments of this society, for example: the Fertilizing Room in the first part of the chapter I,the garden where the students played Centrifugal Bumble-puppy and the Indian reservation of New Mexico in the chapter VII. In the end we are struck by the control of the minds, and by the Controller Mustapha Mond that criticizes the past world - our world (the science, the religion and the typical habits). This figure is very similar to the big characters of history: Lenin, Stalin, Hitler. The principal theme of BNW is the Utopian Society, but this society after 60 years seems very similar to ours!!!!!!!
Bye, Bye!

We have read the book "brave new world" and we are very interested in the fertilization process.we think that in a nearly time it will be possible to realize that,by using the same manufacturing process and so utopia or distopia will be real.this event isn't positive, of course, because in this way all emotional and uman rapports will lose their value;so all the sexual rapports will be considered as a simple game and not a way to communicate feelings. in a few word we can say it is real?another thing that we like is the perfect description made by the autor of the scientific process because he described all the particular of the process,for example the bokanovsky process described in all his dectails,the fertilizator work.what do you think about?

In our opinion the book is very interesting.
It describes a utopic world characterized by the the controlled human reproduction, clonation, mind control and hipnosis,but it's possible that in our future the world will change in this utopic, or better "anti-utopic", comunity described in the book. What do you think?
This book was written 70 years ago, but it's possible to compare it,under some aspects,to our society, because it describes a comunity completely controlled by the tecnnological machines, as in our comunity the Internet, computers and new technology. In your opinion,are we living in a world completely controlled by technology or is it still possible to control the tecnology?

I think our world isn't completly controlled by the technology!
Yes, technology is a very big and important part of our world and it's important for people to develop and to get to know new things.
But I think thre people in our time don't know just the technology, for us the nature isn't unimportant. But people are to lazy to work on their environment! The technology make things easier with computers and so on and peole didn't see the problem which will be in the future! The generations after our time will have problems with as example the pollution and so on, but no one work on this problem now!
That's just because people think that the technology can change it to a better side! But not everything is really controled by the technology!
People invented the technology and I also think that people can control the technology if it takes the most important place in our time!

I liked BNW, because it shows us in a quite frightening way how important individuality is and that we shouldn't loose our feelings and opinions. Although it's sometimes a bit hard to get through the book, i enjoyed reading it.

Robin

(Marilena says):I don't want a perfect world because i like the imprecisions and the variety so every man and woman are soles....(Fabrizio says): I don't want that the world of Huxley will become my world because every one haven't the freedom and I think that the liberty is basic for the life of the people.....

I think that this utopian world, in some cases, can simplify the life because a political dictatorship is based on restricted rules.If a comunity is ruled by rules life is more simple,naturally in disfavor of some freedom.And this is what succeded in this utopian world.

In BNW i like very much the character's description because the reader can deduce immediately the psychological aspects.From my point of view the book is a critique agaist the dictatorship that is describe behind a story,there are much an ulterior motive.What do you think?

I like the way that the Epsilon people don't ask themselves the reason why they were created only for work!
THINK: also the plus stupid man asks himself the way that he is overworks!! The Epsilons no!!

What I definitly liked about BNW was or is the topic. I always thought about what could happen or will happen. The idea Huxley had in his book is very good and the most important, realistic! I really could imagine having a word w/ total control. Maybe not just by one man but controlled by a government or something like it.
Maybe this "having sexual relationships w/ a lot of people" sounds a bit weird to me, but it's still realistic. But what really fascinated me was the way how people are led into their future. In the book it's called predestination. also...very realistic to me.

Well, as we already said we really liked the topic. It was really interessting since it is still matching to our lives today. But it's also very scary because who wants to life like the people in BNW? To have no own oppinion and to behave like you do just because you are conditioned to act like you do before. We think that BNW is a good book because it makes people to think about the future and probably to overthink their acting towards technique and the environment. We think BNW is a kind of warning for the reader. It is like a hint what might happen if we continue to live as we do now. The time even underlines this because Huxley has written the story 1932 and the topic is even more realistic today than it was back then. The world today became even closer to the world in the book. For example with cloning. Today man can clone animals and some are even thinking about cloning humans.

What I liked most while reading bnw was that although Huxley mentions an "utopian world" , he sticks close to reality , what makes it more interesting than other books , I think . He touches the sense of freedom the people nowadays have , and that is what it makes me think about genetic engineering and our behaviour in general becaus noone wants to loose his freedom and indivudality , I think . One more thing i like is that Huxley includes "normal" humans in this system and that he shows what would happen if we were put in the "brave newb world" .
So long Philipp