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Have you ever been on a vacation that simply did not go well? Maybe you got food poisoning, or you struggled with your loved ones, or got bad news in the home? Or maybe you found your boss' illegitimate kid and long-lost spouse, brought them home with you, and continued to harness them before your lifetime fully unraveled? Alright, maybe we are getting a bit too special here.

However, this vacation-gone-wrong is pretty much exactly what happens to bad Bernard Marx at Aldous Huxley's Brave New World.

Huxley first published this novel in 1932, but the story takes place far from the future, where government-sanctioned medication use and massive people orgies occur on the routine. Sound attractive? Not too fast.

As we immediately find out, the future is not all it's chalked up to be.Individuality is something of the past, infants are made in test tubes, and everyone lives in a caste society of clones and "Alphas."

The story follows Bernard Marx, an Alpha that simply can not figure out how to match. Within this future of genetic modification and rigorously stratified society, Bernard is as close something to a individual you'll encounter. The only issue?

As you may imagine, Bernard experiences all kinds of issues as a result of the identity. When Bernard takes a romantic vacation to the Reservation--a crude region of New Mexico the future never attained--The Director not-so-kindly allows Bernard know he should not plan on coming back to work because he is being deported to some distant island.

We don't wish to give away too much just yet, but let us just say things take an interesting turn when Bernard experiences The Director's long-lost spouse and son on the Reservation. So it is pretty controversial that the big-shot Director broke the standard and fathered a kid(gasp! ).

We can not say this book has quite a happy ending, but it does raise a whole lot of significant questions about individuality, individual character, and the downfalls of technological advancement. The novel is often compared to a considerably subsequent novel, Orwell's 1984, because the two undertake similar dystopian issue matter, only in various lights.

Is the future so bright we need to wear shades? Or can it be so dim that we should thank our lucky stars Huxley's predictions have not really come true?

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