ISLAND: Huxley's Counterpart of His BRAVE NEW WORLD
ISLAND : Huxley’s counterpart of his BRAVE NEW WORLD Abstract Aldous Huxley, one of the prominent English writers of all time, whose Brave New World is a dystopian science fiction. The impacts of World War I and the tension of forthcoming World War II are clearly perceptible in this novel. Huxley disclosed the contemporary English society of his time through his novel Brave New World . But it was not the end. He countered his own novel Brave New World as he composed Island , the utopian counterpart of his dystopian Brave New World . This paper attempts to find how two novels of Huxley – Brave New World and Island counter each other. Keywords : Utopia, Dystopia, Existentialism, Socialism, Marxism, Neo-Colonialism Introduction Aldous Huxley, one of the prominent English writers of all time, whose Brave New World is a dystopian science fiction. H.G. Wells’ The Invisible Man or George Orwell’s 1984 are similar to