Why is Brave New World considered a dystopia?

Question

I would love to live in that world! Who's with me?

Answer 1

A gold prison is still a prison.

Answer 2

Not me, too many rules. Bit like all the nanny states evolving now. I hate being told what's bad/good for me. Love Aldous Huxley's work though!

Answer 3

"BRAVE".....  is   a    TYPO!!

right  now   we   are  in     "RAVE"..  new  world...and   soon..   we  will  be  in    "CRAVE"..new  world...

but   the   "BRAVE"..    stay  silent!!..

Answer 4

There were problems with the society.  A utopia is perfect and really an unreachable ideal.  A dystopia is a failed utopia.   In this case, the rules used to create a perfect society also prevented individualist thinking (our means of progress) and discouraged family units (the main reason we seek progress).  In effect, the Brave New World was a stagnant society that could only go down from where it was.  

Other dystopias in fiction include THX 1138, 1984, Farenheit 451, and Logan's Run.  Each one is by a different author and each underlines how much we need individualist thinking and family in order to progress.  We cannot let the state control our lives.

Answer 5

A perfect world necessarily has a perfect God.  The world depicted in that novel, then, can only be described as Hellish.