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Brave New World | End of Utopia: A Study of Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World

In the following excerpt, Peter Edgerly Firchow discusses
how Huxley faced a distinct challenge in developing
unique and interesting characters in a world
where uniformity is strictly enforced.

One of the chief problems Huxley had with Brave New World, according to Donald Watt [in Journal English and Germanic Philology, July, 1978], was with the characters. On the evidence of the revisions, Watt concludes that Huxley seems first to have thought of making Bernard Marx the rebellious hero of the novel but then changed his mind and deliberately played him down into a kind of anti-hero. After rejecting the possibility of a heroic Bernard, Huxley next seems to have turned to the Savage as an alternative. According to Watt, there are in the typescript...

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