File:Y. Volf Utopia.pdf

Summary

This is the story I wrote. The AI aka Chat GPT was used to find synonyms or reformulate what I already wrote.

https://www.glossalab.org/w/index.php?title=Huxley%27s_%22A_Brave_New_World%22&oldid=10550

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The novel "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley was published in 1932. This novel is considered a dystopia and shows us a frightening scenario of the possible future. The events take place in a fictional World State in the 632nd year of the era of stability or the Ford Era. Henry Ford is a very respected person for creating the world's largest automobile company. People in the World State refer to him as the Lord God. Science and technology rule the world. Even people aren't born here, they come out of the incubators that have different conditions. These conditions predispose to which societal group a person will belong. There are four groups named after the letters of the Greek alphabet: alphas, betas, gammas, deltas and epsilons. These groups have different characteristics, for example, alphas considered the people of upper class, workers of mental labor and they perform the most highly skilled work; at the same time Epsilons, people of lower class, who cannot even read or write and perform unskilled labor. The groups are easy to identify by the color they are wearing: alphas - gray, betas - red, gamma - green, deltas - khaki and epsilons - black.The motto of the World State is “Community, Identity, Stability”, identity does not exist here, everything is common and everyone belongs to everyone else. Art and history do not exist in this world, and everything people can do is dive into the entertainment industry and take Soma, a drug, to fix their mood.The plot evolves around Bernard Marx, an alpha male, and John the Savage. Bernard feels alienated by his smaller physical size. He shows an interest in John the Savage, who was raised in an isolated community and has experienced all the emotions of humanity. Bernard introduces John to the "Brave New World," where John is amazed and horrified by the shallow, pleasure-seeking culture. Bernard and John's rebellion against the system gains momentum. They try to expose the flaws of society, but their efforts fail. John's emotions and personality make him a target of persecution and he is forced to flee to a lighthouse on the coast. At the end of the novel Bernard and a group of journalists go to the lighthouse to see John, who has become a celebrity. The journalists provoke John, who cannot control his emotions and attacks them. In the chaos that ensues, John commits suicide.The novel ends with a hint that even rebellion and individuality can be hijacked by the system. This story is a warning about the risks of sacrificing individuality and freedom in the name of stability and efficiency. The central questions in the novel are the role of technology in society and the nature of happiness.