lunes, 1 de septiembre de 2014

My favorite book


 



It’s impossible for me to choose only one book. I have favorite writers but its hard to me to choose a single book. One of the first writers I liked is Gabriel Garcia Marquez. I was twelve years old when I read La Hojarasca and I really liked it. But if you made me choose THE book I like, I have to choose Brave New World, a novel written in 1931 by Aldous Huxley. 

Now I was reading about this book and I discovered that the name Brave New World derives from Miranda's speech in William Shakespeare's The Tempest:

 O wonder!
How many goodly creatures are there here!
How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world,
That has such people in't.

In the book, the vast majority of the population is unified under the” World State”, an eternally peaceful, stable global society where the population is permanently limited to no more than two billion people, meaning goods and resources are plentiful and everyone is happy. 

Natural reproduction has been done away with and children are created, "decanted", and raised in "hatcheries and conditioning centres". From birth, people are genetically designed to fit into one of five castes, which are further split into "Plus" and "Minus" members and designed to fulfill predetermined positions within the social and economic strata of the World State.

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