Brave New World | Summary & Analysis | Aldous Huxley
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Aldous Huxley's Brave New World is about a dystopian world 500 years in the future. All of humanity is controlled by an authoritarian regime that uses genetic engineering, pharmaceuticals, global social conditioning, oppressive thought control, propaganda, and more to keep people in line. The stability this produces carries a terrible cost in human individuality and happiness. However, despite the best efforts of the world state, the book's protagonists discover that human discontent cannot be stifled completely.
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Watched every summary as I read along. You clarified and extracted information I lost or failed to ascertain on my own. Thank you for making Huxley’s masterpiece that much more enjoyable. God bless.
In my reading of the book, the focus on culture, literature and art really stood out. When John starts citing Shakespeare and Mond consequently asks him if he really expects people with no conception of love or family or tragedy to understand Shakespeare.. As Mond tells John, (high) art is based on instability, conflict and struggle. I found this very meaningful and inspiring.
Although it of course raises the question, as does all of the novel, what level of suffering and instability is tolerable to be happy, passionate and artistic?
Doesn't it seen especially appropriate today when we on the west have so little to complain about, yet a generation who stamp their feet and have tantrums at the slightest perceived slight have only managed to food the world with the "art" of tik toks
@@blueluny I feel like social media has such a big impact on nowadays youth. Most of them seem to have close to zero attention span and solely live for their phone. Meanwhile, the government does nothing about it, the damage has already been dealt with and can't be undone. I Hope Zuckerberg knows that his products destroy lifes...Humans are turning into emotionless caskets and he makes money off of it. COVID has made it even worse...
Thank you for the video. I thought it was a very clear and concise summary of the book. I find the speaker's voice to be pleasant also.
This is actually the best video ive ever seen about a book. This summary is just perfection
@@sushi3377 I like how they explain the book, the events, the structure, etc. I do not like where English teachers go straight to "this is my interpretation of the book" as I believe that students should first understand the story and the structure first. Also, teachers should allow students to come up with their own interpretations before they give theirs.
@@btetschner
Bad news;
Satan will soon ban critical thinking in school
(That's - kinda sorta if - he hasn't done that already?).
why is there background music it's really distracting i just want to hear the word content not beepboopleepedoops
Sounds like you need some social reprogramming
@@bigfan1041 😂
Get some soma
@@Attiler9 A gramme is better than a damn.
After reading your comment i can't ignore this music 😂
Had to read this in high school, and am looking back after graduating from university last spring with a chemistry degree. Hands down my favorite book
I got introduced to the book today starting only with Chapter One and this book got me good.(Iam studying in German)
Kaizoku Brave New World is a great example of English literature and mastery of the English language! Glad you got a chance to read it.
Just read it and it’s freaky
Also read this in my senior high school year (1996-1997)
(go gold and blue Jefferson Dragons from Tampa, Florida)!
This book was (I mean still is) totally sick, kicks ass and takes names on the blackboard!
I scare my family with quotes out of it every one in a while to keep them on their toes.
I really enjoined this video... I'm Italian and I'm studying this novel at school. you really helped me! thank you!
Another good read, and certainly about Italy, Cipola as Il Duce, is Mario and The Magician by Thomas Mann.
This is seriously a classic.
Has me in tears when I'm done with it.
Why is there American flags in the solider bit surely he signed up for the British army
John Tubb aw man. Why’d you have to notice that. I’ve spent countless hours coding this animation
Cause 'murica
As a native Englishman, do I really have to point out that Britain is, to all intents and purposes, part of America? I suspect Huxley would have heartily approved of the American flag being paraded in the animation representing one of his greatest works....
Cultural tunnel vision.
Honestly a book with some amazing thought process behind the concepts
I concur.
BTW, dig your user name.
I chuckled when I read that.
There is pain and death in the Europa it’s just that the people are classically conditioned to associate positivity with death. This is one of the big themes In the book you didn’t mention Nature vs Nurture and how far can social conditioning determine a humans future (not entirely)
I've watched the first season of ,,Brave new world" series and now after watching this video I'm completely shocked after realizing, what actually happened in this story😳🤯🤯
You should read the book.
This really helped with my college Essay!
same here
Reminds me of the game named "We Happy Few". Strangely enough, this seems to be the future.
Thank you so much for this playlist!
Lets make this fiction again
💔💔💔
Too late. I feel like John the Savage yelling. Juul is poison. Xanax is poison.
In what way is our society anything like a Brave New World? Everyone was happy in that world, all the time. There was no chaos or disease or war. You must not have read the book.
@@michaelshannon6134 we just have different interpretations 🙏 we might've read the same book but not actually
@@michaelshannon6134 Brave new world is not fully here, but the desire for it, the intentionality is winning. The world is fragmented though, we'll see what happens m
I got more from this than from the whole book
Then I suppose you didn’t interpret the book while reading it?
Read it again then
Did you read the book?
Did you actually read the book?
@@iamnotyourbuddyGUY OH dang ....... you mean I had to actually turn the pages LOL :P
I was looking at the cover very intensely for 2 years .... but nothing happened
Soma. The drug soma is a symbol of . It is also a symbol of the powerful influence of science and technology on society. As a kind of “sacrament,” it also represents the use of religion to control society.
Jack Kennedy's demise should not be characterized by the general term "death", it should be called what it was, and that was clearly murder.
people die when a murder occurs
@@yagesh287 I think theyre saying that the term "death" presents a lot of ambiguity where there shouldnt be.
had an english essay and was supposed to read the book. didn't read a single page ,watched this video and took notes. aced the assignment
All righty there, trapeeze artist.
If that's not nailing it I don't know what is.
Oh crap watch your step; you almost fell off the; never mind...
Thanks that so helpful
Nice touches. Thanks to all who labours. ✌
He wasn’t talking about fascism or communism, he was talking about OUR society in the West! How could you miss that!?
This is pretty much the visions of Klaus Schwab and the Davoisie, but reality is more akin to 1984....own nothing and be happy!
People understand we're living in 'A Brave New World', right?
John Hall it’s a game plan! What’s people going to do about it exactly?
Funny thing is we made this brave new world. We always make our world.
I don't think people do. I mean, a lot do.
But the majority don't know
Looks like Huxleys prediction of the future arrived 500 years early...
Yes but we're also slipping into a bit of 1984. All governments are monitoring their people
I read 1984, and that book has prophesying to happen in 2020.
But I haven't read brave new world, so I'll read it.
No it didn't lol.
I don’t agree with your final assessment. I think the ultimate point of the book is that in life there can’t be joy without sadness. Utopia isn’t a place where there is a lack of pain - it’s a place where people love each other, are sometimes happy and sometimes sad. But this is a great video all the same.
By your logic, we are currently living in a utopian society but we're not. A utopia is basically where everything is perfect. You should look up the definition.
Soma is different to any drug, it's not weed or benzodiazepines. Soma affects the user instantly removing all negative emotions, you also cant build up a tolerance to it and has no unhealthy side effects, when/ if such a drug is invented it will change the world
It does have some side effects, and can cause death if taken in really large amounts. Most side effects described in the book are really mild though, like waking up too late for work if you take a little too much.
@@KarlSnarks interesting even sonsuch a drug would change everything. Human emotion regulates so much of our collective society as a whole which should be based on logic
It mentions that it takes a couple of years off of someone's life. Killed Linda.
@@LittleMew133 does it?🤔 I missed that part, I thought it had no side effects. I was also curious as to why Linda died at such a young age 🤔🤷🏻♂️ I guess that would explain it. But I also thought she was ODing on it.
An excellent synopsis and comment. I'd add another element: the author imagines only Alphas have an inner compulsion to have lives of meaning, to explore and to create. Beta females latch onto to the highly motivated males among the Alpha males, perhaps unaware of their primordial desire for the sperm of such gifted persons. The rest of the people are sheeple. They are simple-minded and unreservedly embrace their station in life. The novel therefore side-steps the issue of enabling gifted persons from all social strata to develop their potential.
It's explained in the novels they do genetic manipulations, and shut down the oxygen in the procreation tanks TO MAKE SURE there is no gifted persons on other social strata. I think it covers that aspect quite well.
Thanks for the summary, I have to hear the audiobook for homework, and I don't know the meaning of some words. And the audio is 7h. :v
This might be the only time I’ve watched one of your videos for reasons completely unrelated to school.
Thank you so much! Great video
I’m so thankful for you guys! You saved from reading in my opinion a boring book in senior year class of 2019
You can’t say with certainty that the book is boring without actually reading it. Looking up a summary of a book is not the same in the slightest as actually reading it through.
It's actually a really interesting book relative to other books
How can the book be boring to you if you clearly stated that you were saved from reading it 🤐
@@MrJpc280 well I was 18 back in 2019. In my opinion the book wasn’t exacting. I’m use to action and the only action was near the end with fight at the hospital.
@@levegarex that's an interesting way of thinking then. Do you watch the shows/movies that you think are boring just to confirm that they indeed are? 😅
Thank you for the stunning video
The USA is just like Brave new world and China is just like Orwells 1984.
8:41 incorrect. there is death
people are conditioned to it tho. it's there but it's not painful or something that's thought much of. i think that's what she meant
I thought John just WANTED to attack lenena with his whip ( thinking while attacking himself )
Nice
I couldn't understand if the crowd had mass sex at the end of the book, or not. (day before John hung himself)
Thank you for this.
so yall make this vid free but not the blurred out contexts on your website?
Not sure why she used the term "sexual liberation" as it has a positive stigma these days. Sexual DEPRAVITY is a more truthful description.
Christian H shes trying to justify to herself not having children
@@nileisthebestband xD
Decadence would be more fitting. Because sexual Depravity implies only that. Decadence implies a Fall of Society.
And how the World works today, there is only Decadence. Human Society is going to fall.
Just sad.
I think by sexual liberation she is referring to the ability for them to have multiple sexual partners with no stigma.
@@shenglis4260 You're probably right.
I was too harsh in using the term "depravity." The only question I'd ask is... why? Why would a person engage in something like a romantic / sexual relationship (and for *what* purpose), with the expectation that they could just leave it one day, or start another one... or to look elsewhere to satisfy some need they feel is somehow unfillable? They do it very often on a whim, or because they're frustrated with something they don't know how to address. Males and females do this, it isn't a matter of either sex being "in the wrong." Modern relationships are so fucked.
Damn. This is happening today
Yes and we are gonna stop it We are not going to be controlled
We still have marriage and childbirth, religion and books. Exactly how are we BNW?
@@jacquesaubin4454 Did u go out during the pandemic?
Tysm for everything ❤️
I love it. Thanks!
Wow...epic!!
There is a movie pretty similar to what the author depicts. It's called Gattaca (1997)
As far as I'm aware, the only themes they share is genetic engineering, and castes based on that engineering.
There’s also a TV adaptation of Brave New World now.
Well done video, the background music is too loud though.
some times you can have a utopia within a dystopia or a dystopia within a utopia.
Agree. Things are never black and white
Utopia is just a another form of dystopia
He didn't die on the same day as Kennedy. He just went into the story with the rest of us.
We will come to a time when we will be offered to live in a Brave New World or suffer in a 1984 Orwellian world. Choose the third option: Defy both offers
a great summary!!!
The foetus were not "genetically engineered" as we'd know it today. After all this was 1936 and we'd not even discovered DNA at this point. Huxley instead saw the foetus given different amounts of oxygen to arrest their development and (although not stated) perhaps selective breeding.
"Dystopic"
Back to this debate. It was not a dystopia, it was a utopia. Everyone was happy all the time, everyone but the savage at least. Just because it seems ugly and foreign to you does not make it a dystopia; that is just as ignorant as being openly disgusted at the customs of other cultures just because they are different from your own. I don't think even Huxley would've called it a dystopia.
That's actually true. Would you agree that 1984 was definitely a dystopia?
Aldous Huxley was involved in reaserch into LSD at Harvard University during the 1950s.
I don t know what Aldous Huxley was...writer or a prophet...
Thanku very much mam
background music is too much but nice video.
Other than 1984 and the bible can you recommend some other prophetic books?
Animal farm
Dystopia.. but that asn't stopped the powers that be from attempting to bring it to reality.. 😱
Great book
8:45 it's rather anti-utopia
I understand very well
a master piece of a story anyways.
Huxley was Orwell's french teacher
very good
I’m trying to find A good video for online school. I’m not succeeding.
i thought this was for civ
Amazing👍👍👍❤️
So many fictional writers, have things in there books that come true .
3:48 castes
some days it would be nice to just have a couple grams of soma 🤤
Today we call it a bong and weed.
soma comes from hindu vedic hallucinating agent called som ras(juice)
This novel make you feel a bit….enslaved? Enslaved to this world of slaves we live in? Kinda makes ya feel hopeless eh? Kinda like a slave, to little to make a change in this big messed up world?
Good, then it’s serving it’s true purpose.
It’s time to stop letting the 1950s silencing techniques work on us today, and take action.
I have trouble reading this book not like 1984 any tips lol
xMolizy it gets easier after the 1st chapter. the first chapters where they explain how they produce humans and condition them are admittedly boring. when it gets to bernard marx and his friend hemholtz, i think it’s more entertaining
@@superquietbunny yesi agree with your opinion
I disagree with the last two commenters. I saw the first 3 chapters as amazing and horrifying. Huxley is building the world of the book. You are literally reading how a world of people are being created without a natural birth. And then the embryos being poisoned to create classes of people.
I listened the Audiobook, and had no difficulty getting through it. Maybe that's and option for you
Epsilons are important too
dystopia. I think actually this society is vulnerable to unexpected parameters, the society is inflexible and unable to adapt to a new virus, mistakes like with Bernard causing disturbances. I didn't like the 'brave new world' or the new mexico reservation either, or John's attitude. The place where are the people who don't fit in, that sounds like it could be a place worth visiting tho. If you think of it as a person living in a safe haven, comfort zone by not taking risks, trying new things. The cost of stability is stagnation and zero meaning to life. I don't see how any kind of genetic modification can breed out human nature of curiosity and desire to look for patterns and meaning in everything, that's imprinted. If I'm to assume they were able to breed these natural traits out of humans, it's a superficial existence, boring and unstimulating.
Looks like Huxleys prediction of the future arrived 500 years early...
Not a prediction. He was deep in the elite society so he knew what was coming. Much worse than prophecies.
Either Huxley is writing about what was happening in the 1800s (a reset that happened in history that is not is school text books) or he is responsible for some of the problems we have today. There is a lot of evidence that very small babies were being sold in incubators at World Fairs in the 1800s … a very common theme! The question is where did these babies come from? Technology was definitely around a long time ago! When somebody has a fanciful vision and uses imagination to create a story basically one is setting intentions for something to manifest into the future. Was his story so powerful that it set an imprint into the collective consciousness and we are the result of where our future is now heading! There is currently a baby incubator facility being advertised for people to design their own baby so women don’t need to get pregnant. It’s time to escape from this entangled web of negativity and create our own future.
If we don't ask painful questions nobody else would and at the end it would turn out to be that nightmarish reality. By reading or writing a dystopian fiction you are not trying to manifest such a future. After all dystopian fiction is not to be taken as a guide but as a warning.
Reading dystopian fiction opens up the clogged mind and makes it more observant, pragmatic as you question everything. So no, if Huxley or Orwell wrote dystopian fiction like 1984 or BNW, they gave us a prior warning and not a way to 'manifest' a world.
Do you then expect all the books to be just positive?
Watch Wtv conditioning the masses on RUclips. This book is not a fictional fable it’s the devil laughing at us. While his puppet tells us what he’s about to do. But it’s ok god also has a book .
life-saver
Well if people are miserable about being oppressed more oppression is not the solution.
Okay this video or in the very least the narrator seems to be having a conflict of interest towards a strongly biased towards a far-right worldview and narrative when it seems pretty clear that by the utopia Huxley proposed in his last book was a form of libertarian socialism. This to me seems to be skews and shifting the narrative to fit into their own worldview rather than to actually challenge themselves and their own beliefs with what Huxley actually advocated for.
how true
Oh so this explains why I woke up one day in a test tube.
People ought tocomprehend theme of Brave NewWorld which anticipates Coming 500 yrs !
We r in it for last 80- 90 yrs !
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Infinite Compassion !
Awake
Arise !
Listen to this Call by God !
Does anyone know what is the message of the ending?
I think it's just trying to say that radical thinking is bad.
John pretty much became a zealot in the end, he just was as numb and blinded as the "civilized" people with his own ideals. He chose death instead of dealing with his conflicting thoughts, just as the civilized people choose to take soma when feeling discomfort.
When I first read this book I always thought of john savage as the hero, but now today with more understanding of the author and the crew he ran with I realize (or at least believe) that this book acts more like a blueprint, model or advertisement of an actual future of our real world where those in power have been and are making into reality and so now I understand John's character, actions and his death to be more of an example or even a sick joke...pretty much saying this new world is coming whether you like it or not and guys and ideas like this will become obsolete...out with the old in with the new. I could be reaching but that's my answer
@@ghettoninja82 no I think you hit it right on the head. Honestly I read 1984 and thought that was our future, but this does feel like a blueprint.
I don't know anything about the author and am now intrigued, I do follow the truther community and believe in the banking elite or whatver. Sounds about right, do you have any information to share for my follow up study. I have heard of a book "a brave new world revisited" might have to check that out next
@@42flyingphish ruclips.net/video/cTPjPlHDCqs/видео.html
No death? There's definitely death. Please read the book before summarizing.
Horror vision, that could get reality soon.😥
I would say its dysphoria.
Interesting take on it but not very in depth or critical. I wouldn't like to be relying on it to get a good grade, let's put it that way...
Dystopia its definitely not a utopia
How is a world without war and only pleasure a Dystopia?
What were his personal reasons against economic equality? He was born rich so nevermind that explains some of it.
utopia is dystopia - knowledgehub
I don't agree that this vision is less brutal than "1984".
Straight to the Iceland!😂😄
can u get caught for plagiarism if it’s a RUclips video lol
thinkin about the same thing. so do u have the answer already?
Watsky indirectly brought me here.
My favorite book
Started reading the book and is a pretty hard read the first 5 parts, but been getting it bit by bit may do a 2nd read to just get the message through.
@@NapoleonicWarrior I can see that. Push through to the end, the message is rather rewarding. I first read it at a time when my teen angst made me disillusioned with "society" (e.g. I was just being a teenager). I read it voraciously because I identified with Bernard Marx, but then the plot twist hits...or rather, as the story progresses each character's true character comes to the forefront and by the end I realized I shouldn't be so angsty and Marx-like, but rather need to take action to undo the slow march towards this bleak vision of the world. We already have racist, hyper-erotic popular media and helicopters so some elements of the book have already come true, but yea I won't ruin it for you! Reading it a second time when you are ready also does wonders :)
Anyone here from iron maiden?
God bless everyone and share the gospel of Jesus Christ he loves you so much and turn from sins
This is no fiction beware why you think schools implement it to defocus on the true contemplated meaning
Joeri Van De Weyer enlighten us then
@@jeremyramirez5465 oof, destroyed in seconds
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