Reading Brave New World made me feel curious and worried. In brave new world the society is ruled by technology and rules. People in this book are happy because they are basically forced to be. This make me think about the amount of dependency we have for technology this days and that it could go that far. The book made me think that we could be losing our individuality and even maybe our freedom without noticing.
Something that stood out to me all through the story is how the people use the drug “soma” in this story. It reminded me of how people use drugs and social media like an escape from their problems kinda how the characters used soma. This helped me reflect on the importance of not avoiding our problems and challenges and confront them instead of finding an escape in things like social media and drugs like some people do in real life. Another thing that had an impact on me was how relationships in the book were really superficial and shallow. How strange it is to me that families don’t exist and that the characters shouldn’t have deep connections with other characters. This made me reflect on the importance of taking care of our loved ones and paying more attention to them rather than to technology and work. It made me remember how important connections with other people are.The character I liked most was John the savage, because his character felt the most human to me, because he didn’t fit into the rules and the controlling of his world and wanted a life the truly meant something rather than a shallow one with no connections and true feelings. His final made me sad.
I think brave new world is a good book to reflect on changed our world in facing, although is not the type of book I like to read, it pushed on my boundaries and talked about many topics I’m not comfortable with.