A Study in Aldous Huxley’s Novel Brave New World as A Scary Vision of Science in the World of the Future – A World beyond Humanity and Religion

Abstract

Undoubtedly, scientific technology has a positive aspect and that the tremendous development in it will eventually lead to the creation of a new era and a new different world completely different from ours. But the question remains – what will people look like and what are the new standards and values that will control human behaviour in this new world. In his novel, Brave New  World (1932), which is written as a science fiction, Aldous Huxley (1894 –1963), the English novelist, critic, and philosopher envisioned what scientific and technological progress would lead to in the future and its negative consequences on human life at all levels, especially on the humanitarian and religious levels, to end up with him, under the shadow of the frightening development of scientific technology, with a dark dystopian portrait of the world to come; the portrait in which the human beings, after technology has intervened with their creation, appear as monsters; as non-social beings that even belong to other new beings, to say the least human beings, or to put it more precisely, as humanoids – those creatures with characteristics that bear resemblance to those of human beings.