As with Fahrenheit 451, 2018 seemed like an appropriate year to work through some of these classic dystopian stories. (My love of The Great Gatsby is the exception that proved the rule.) While some of the books read for high school still hold no appeal for me, this is one I’ve been meaning in to re-read for some time now. I hated it, and it was from that experience that I developed my theory that I had a natural aversion to books I had to read. I had to read A Brave New World over the summer before my senior year of high school, the first book for AP English. In a properly organized society like ours, nobody has any opportunities for being noble or heroic. These things are symptoms of political inefficiency. We have the feelies and the scent organ instead.Ĭivilization has absolutely no need of nobility or heroism. You’ve got to choose between happiness and what people used to call high art. Freedom to be a round peg in a square hole. Parliament, if you know what that was, passed against.

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