Thanks for your thoughts! I think you’ve put your finger on an important difference between how an individual experiences a society and what a society is capable of accomplishing. It’s the stunting in the second category that makes Brave New World a clear dystopia for me. As for the islands, their influence on the remainder of society is clearly told to be carefully limited and controlled. I think Huxley’s inclusion of the islands as havens for the dissatisfied greatly increases the ambiguity in how the society appears to a modern reader.
Thanks for the pointer to your blog post. You’ve clearly thought a lot about this. As you predicted, I find your conclusion repugnant and dystopian, but I don’t have a knock-down argument against your train of thought.
Thanks for your thoughts! I think you’ve put your finger on an important difference between how an individual experiences a society and what a society is capable of accomplishing. It’s the stunting in the second category that makes Brave New World a clear dystopia for me. As for the islands, their influence on the remainder of society is clearly told to be carefully limited and controlled. I think Huxley’s inclusion of the islands as havens for the dissatisfied greatly increases the ambiguity in how the society appears to a modern reader.
Thanks for the pointer to your blog post. You’ve clearly thought a lot about this. As you predicted, I find your conclusion repugnant and dystopian, but I don’t have a knock-down argument against your train of thought.