Aldous Huxley: Island

Why did Huxely have to write this as a novel? That format doesn’t work. 99% of it is conservation or more like series of monologues. It is packed with interesting ideas about what an ideal society would look like, including its education, health, economy, religions, sexual practices and so on. But the dialogue format is confusing it. It would have been a nice philosophical essay. There are so many ideas in it that it is impossible to summarize. Just a few points that were interesting enough to pick out: – Children are brought up by a community of parents. They can escape to other than their biological parents to live for a while, but they cannot escape responsibilities.