"O wonder!
How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world! That has such people in't!"
-Shakespeare’s The Tempest
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Aldous Huxley’s A Brave New World is a dystopian piece of fiction that was published in 1932 in London by Chatto and Windus. The novel takes place in a futuristic society where no longer are children raised by their parents. Infants are genetically manufactured and programmed to be ideal adults in a tightly knit community. The main character struggles to fit in because of a decanting malfunction that enabled him to think for himself and analyze situations. This outcast, throughout the novel, grasps a better understanding of the underlying workings of society, which create an urge for him to be alone and discover what else is outside of the bubble of community he is stuck in. Eventually he travels to a place where people still live and thrive in the old ways, isolated from the ideal world. There he meets a half-savage young man who turns his life around and opens his eyes. In the end of it all the society doesn’t change but some of the main characters are relocated to a place where their differences are accepted and they can live without constant ridicule as they were before.
