Aldous Huxley/island
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...describes a Utopian society that, in many ways, anticipated the current debates concerning sustainable growth, ecological concerns and criticism of the rampant industrialization and consumerism that has shaped so much of Western society. Basically, in this novel, Huxley offers an alternative vision to the horrors that he has warned his readers about in his earlier works, that is, over population, coercive politics, militarism, industrialization and the destruction of the environment. Examination of novel brings up the question as to whether Huxley is a prophet, a visionary or a dreamer?
While Huxley addresses multiple concerns with his imagined island society of Pala, he eschews the title of "dreamer" through his realistic and harsh depiction of the island's ultimate fate. Nevertheless, his account offers a visionary proposal of what human society may be capable of under the right ideological conditions. Examination of this novel demonstrates conclusively that Huxley was ahead of his time and deserves the title of visionary. It is clear that he intended this work to cause his reader to...
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