Paper Details

Name: Sumita Kanwar
Country: India

Year: 2019
Volume: Volume-6, Issue-1 & 2 (Combined Issue)
Page Number: 10-15

Creative writers are essentially men by letters and learning whose legendry write-ups not only record the souls of their times but also give us a peep into eventualities and future possibilities shaping humanity and their lives. Huxley's Brave New World is one such successful work of art which executes skillfully the possibility of gauging the future of mankind and its urge to go beyond the physical world of surety and drudgery. What he perceived in theoretical perspective by creating an imaginary world of future has become the thrust area of science and technology these days. This lends universality to his 'Brave New World' which, when published in the year 1932, struck the intelligent readers as well as academic critics as a 'dystopia' recording an ironic vision of the times to come, comes before us as a factual representation of life in the western world in particular and the entire world in general. The miracle of 'fiction' transforming itself into 'fact' has materialized itself even sooner than Huxley had predicted. Hence the relevance of the present critical perusal of Brave New World as a journey from fiction to fact.