Brave New World
(Aldous, Huxley)
In the book the reader is shifted into a utopian scenario, where humans develop from test tubes, monogamy is taboo and negative feelings are erased by Soma, the omnipresent opium of the people. Bernhard Marx is the protagonist of the book; with his monogamy attitude towards relationships he represents an unacceptable exception in a totalitarian system. This power structure, created by a few world rulers breeds a society by purposeful manipulation, in so-called conditioning centers. Here each citizen goes through an extremely idealized apparatus of opinion forming, which from now on creates social classes, divided into different groups, formed in relation to knowledge potential. They "produce" purposefully according to the needs of the community. During a stay in a reservation for the so-called savages, also known as humans, whom we would assign to our civilization, Bernhard comes into a life-threatening situation. John, one of these "wild ones" helps him and saves the well-developed stranger. In return he may now enter the Brave New World, thus the technically and scientifically completely developed world. John however notices soon that the prevailing condition of mass satisfaction requires a high price: the absolute abolishment of art, literature and true love as well as a complete addiction on the people?s drug. When he openly revolts, after a previous arrest they finally leave him to his fate in this it all too strange future society. John cannot identify himself in this way of life and flees from it. Since as non-clone he had generated a general interest he now is widely pursued. At the end of a slope they finally get him, he stumbles and falls into death.
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