First Impression

The first three chapters of Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World confused me a lot. There is a lot of background information that the author throws at the readers. He tries to describe the future of humanity with a “perfect society”. This perfect society is where babies are born without their mothers, where people’s lives are arranged before they even born, where ethical issues are considered as nothing. The readers, such as me, are drowned by all the image that the author tries to build up. In fact, these images seem to sketch out a picture of a bright, colorful life that is gloomy and hopeless. I don’t know what is in Huxley’s mind when he writes this story, but for me he tries writing what he believes is our future society. I am still undecided whether I see Brave New World as a bad or good story. I just realize that so many true things about this futuristic society that is expressed from this novel. In my opinion, the truth is hurtful to accept sometime. People seem to be scared of the truth about their life, that is their responsibility. This fear is why people try not to be aware of it. I also believe that this is the main idea that Huxley tries to tell his readers. Or is something different?