When I picked it up I quickly realized that I had indeed read it before. Also a high school lit class. It is all very dark and depressive. It is a story of an outsider trying to fit in to the neat clean world. Something was slightly amiss when Bernard was created and he is full of anxiety, which has generally been engineered out of society totally. He is an unlikable character. You pity him, but he is a jerk.
There is also John, who is again an outsider trying to make it in the larger and more sterile "real" world. But the world is just to real for the both of them and you end up feeling that you DO need to be "normal" to be able to get by. It almost becomes an argument FOR the establishment. Which is slightly distressing.
It is a wonderful world that Huxley painstakingly colors for you, but isn't it nice when the hero wins? Maybe he wasn't going for that.. maybe it isn't meant to be nice.
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