Island

"Maybe this world is the hell of another world." -Aldous Huxley  Aldous Huxley could not attend World War I, because of a problem in his eyes. Instead of this, he went on a journey in his inner world. He was always interested in science, as well as mystcism and the spiritual world.  In the meantime, the world was dragging in more misery day by day. The hunger which came with the war was catastrophic. This situation played a big role in his dystopic novels.  Jim Morrison read Aldous Huxley's Doors of Perception. Inspired by the book, the band called The Doors. He left his mark on music and a generation in a poetic style.   When the discovery of a hallucinative drug called LSD was heard in 1968, he tried it immediately.  This drug changed his outlook on the world. After that, Huxley introduced Ray Bradbury, the author of Fahrenheit 451, to LSD and mescaline and pioneered his crazy style.  One year after he lost his...

 End of the book and end of the island. It's time to talk about my expectations and opinions about book. I read New Brave World five-six years ago, I remember that i was impressed. Another book from the same writer, this made me excited. "The Island", it's a intriguing name. What kind of island? A good one or a nighmare? I knew this is an utopia, so a good one, okey. What about the characters? At first, i didn't like Will. He was a selfish, unloyal, liar man. But seeing his progress was a good experience. We see Pala from his eyes, we learn details from the island inhabitants with him. As he changes, my ideas about him changed too.  I prefer distopias than utopias, i find them more interesting. It happened this time too. The idea of making a great island which is seperated from world is amazing. So as the main living rules in Pala. There are the bad, dangereous characters who add excitement to the story too. But i couldn't find them enough. The par...

INSPIRATION BOARD If One is going to design a product that inspired from a book how would it will be...While looking for inspiraiton for my homework, some products remind me the book. Then I think about it. What is this book makes me feel like?  At below, there are some product that makes me feels like their design inspired from "Island". Most of them related  to bird figure since it was symbol of mindfullnes and it is called for attention. "Attention", "Here and now,..." Quotes make me think of yellow color, time thus clock, water as a symbol of life also we can easily forget to drink it. I take lightenings related to focus notion . Green color as a tropical figure that reminds me İsland idea in general. Also seperator reminds me isolation, since in the book the Island was isolated from others. The desk organizer reminds me rocks around the Island , where Will wake up beginning of the story. Also forms that inspired from natural ...

HOW IT ENDS  We know that this book is an utopia. That's why I thought it is going to have a happy ending. But surprise! It doesn't end with happy events. After every little detail we learned about Pala, after we think it is like a heaven, we saw it's end. Murugan brought Colonel Dipa and his soldiers, he let them use Pala for its oil and everything.  While i was reading the book, i observed how Will improved himself. At first, he was a selfish man. He was cheating on his wife. Even though she died, he didn't feel much sadness. And before he came to the island, his mission was to convince Murugan to sell their oil to Will's boss. He was not worrying about Pala or its own natural values.  Page by page, his personality changed. People showed him how things work in Pala and he impressed. His ideas started to change.  However, Will's personality was not the only thing what was changing in the island. Murugan was almost 18 and it means that he is goin...

                                                  In the book, they think of children who have crime-prone character as Peter Pan, and this is explained with examples from the life and personality of the hits. The quote from the book describes the advanced thinking on the island.    "Read the Fiihrer's biography," said Dr. Robert. "A Peter Pan if ever there was one. Hopeless at school. Incapable either of competing or co-operating. Envying all the normally successful boys—and, because he envied, hating them and, to make himself feel better, despising them as inferior beings. Then came the time for puberty. But Adolf was sexually backward. Other boys made advances to girls, and the girls responded. Adolf was too shy, too uncertain of his manhood. And all the time incapable of steady work, at home only in the compensatory Other World of his f...

     Moksha medicine prepares the person to dream images before the mystery or to mystery life in all its glory. It allows the drinker to fully understand what should be. In addition, he collaborates with this situation in meditation. And when they are taken together, they offer positive things such as happiness, quality life to the machete people.     In one part of the book, a game between Shanta and Vijaya's babies is mentioned. This game consists of the concepts formulated above. In the book play called the Pavlov method, the baby continues to be touched while feeding the baby. In addition to this, the baby is shown an animal that he loves and the baby is shown with positive features such as sweet and good life. Together with these words of love, the feeling of love is provided in the baby. This section of the book summarizes the philosophy of the life of the machete. "More than enough. We eat better than any ot...

We already know why Aldous Huxley wrote Island: It was to create an anti-thesis after Brave New World. Since distopia and utopia are opposite things, it seems that he connected these books through using the same elements with opposite purposes, which makes the difference between them more clear and impactful. Below there is a chart showing the comparison between Brave New World and Island in terms of common elements/objects/notions in both books. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_(Huxley_novel) To go deeper about drug use in these two books, you can have a look at this video:

Here are three front cover alternatives for Aldous Huxley's Island. The main concept in all three designs is emphasizing the Mynah birds and the Moksha medicine, with a silhouette of an island and flying birds as a part of the background. Fonts: Island: Impact Aldous Huxley: Bellerose SBP 105E Logo: Centaur Regular

The speeches between the characters at the beginning of the book and from time to time for the purpose of raising awareness of birds also passed some discourses. The most specific of these birds at the beginning of the book "Attention!" were they said. This statement has been used to address the state of awareness from the very beginning of the book. The book aims to draw attention to many social, cultural and similar situations and to make the reader realize and make sense of the subject. CHAPTER IX -  "'Patriotism is not enough.' But neither is anything else. Science is not enough, religion is not enough, art is not enough, politics and economics are not enough, nor is love, nor is duty, nor is action however disinterested, nor, however sublime, is contemplation. Nothing short of everything will really do." "Attention!" shouted a faraway bird.

   Will is trying to persuade Murugan to bring catalogs from the outside world and distribute them for free to the people. He thinks that it could make them enthusiastic about buying properties. They'll start to want more developments. Yet Murugan does not think so. Because of the yoga of love, nothing is similar to the outside world.  "No progress, only sex! And of course that beastly dope they're all given." says Murugan. "Scientifically cultivated dope."  Will is very surprised to hear that the people use drugs here. But Dr. Macphail believes that Murugan calls them as dope, because he grew up in Europe. In Pala, they call them with nice words: The moksha-medicine, the reality revealer, the truth-and beauty pill. What Murugan thinks about the moksha-medicine   Murugan has never tried this pills before and he has no intention of triying them. " All it gives you is a lot of illusions ," he says. " Why should I go out ...

"Nobody needs to go anywhere else. We are all, if we only knew it, already there." Utopia, is the idealized "no place" or "nowhere" first described by Thomas More. In Huxley's writing, the first time we come across the manifestation of perfection when Will encounters the two children of the island, describing their pure appearance: Will looked from one child to the other. How beautiful they were, and how faultless, how extraordinarily elegant! Like two little thoroughbreds. Like many other utopian literary examples, idealization is sustained by the basic principles that have been established. These are presented to our outsider character Will Farnaby shortly after he arrives: "It merely states the underlying principles. Read about those first... You'll have a better understanding of what was actually done if you start by knowing what had to be done—what always and everywhere has to be done by anyone who has a clear idea about what's ...

HOW DO THINGS WORK IN PALA?   Until his last novel, Island, Aldous Huxley was known as a counter-utopia author. One of the best known novel, Brave New World, is based on the assumption that science can dominate the world and bring happiness to humanity. But it is not good enough for people according to Huxley. As i researched, Huxley was watching the world and learning from the events how the science can be used to destroy humanity in the hands of bad managers, the rapid increase of the world population, the passion of consumption, the technology dependence of people. But he manages to maintain his optimistic look. He built this island, Pala. Thinking in Pala is as free as possible, there is no obstacle to human abilities and creativity.   What kind of an island is this Pala? In the region of the Indonesian archipelago, Pala is a fantastic island. It is a mountainous island, separated from the neighboring island of Rendang by a sea gorge. Pala has rich oil, gol...