01685cam a2200229 4500 62129940 TxAuBib 20020301120000.0 020301s1946||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780899664231 0899664237 TxAuBib Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963. Brave New World / Aldous Huxley. Cutchogue, N.Y. : Buccaneer Books, 1946. xiv, 176 p. ; 23 cm. The Savage is offered only two alternatives , an insane life in Utopia, or the life of a primitive in an Indian village, a llife more human in soe respects, but in others hardly less queer and abnormal. at the time the book was written this idea, that human beings are given free will in order to choose between insanity on the one hand and lunacy on the other, was one that I found amusing and regarded as quite possibly true. For the sake, however, of dramatic effect, the Savage is often permitted to speak more rationally than his upbringing among the practitioners of a religion that is half fertility cult and half Penitente ferocity would actually warrant.Even his acquaintance with Shakespeare would not in reality justify such uterances. And at the close, of course, he is made to retreat form sanity; his native Penitente-ism reasserts its authority and he ends in maniacal self-torture and despairing suicide. " And so they died miserably ever after"-much to the reassurance of the amused, Pyrrhonic aesthete who the author of the fable. 20020301. Propaganda Fiction. Brainwashing Fiction. Culture Fiction.