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''Island'' is the last novel by Aldous Huxley.
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An IntrepidReporter Will Farnaby accidentally-on-purpose crashes his yaht on the shores of Pala, the [[HiddenElfVillage forbidden]] island. The natives readily take him in, patch him up and let Will roam around as freely as one can on crutches. He finds himself more and more drawn to this new civilisation, but worries it won't be there for long, since petrol moguls are already reaching for Pala. In fact, Will himself is an unofficial representative of one.
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An IntrepidReporter Will Farnaby accidentally-on-purpose crashes his yaht yacht on the shores of Pala, the [[HiddenElfVillage forbidden]] island. The natives readily take him in, patch him up and let Will roam around as freely as one can on crutches. He finds himself more and more drawn to this new civilisation, but worries it won't be there for long, since petrol moguls are already reaching for Pala. In fact, Will himself is an unofficial representative of one.
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* CorruptedCharacterCopy: The Palans invert this, being a better version of the World Staters of ''Literature/BraveNewWorld'': the World Staters pursue things like promiscuous sex, drugs, and communal living in order to live hedonistic lives of pure pleasure. The Palans embrace a similar lifestyle, but to enhance and improve their spiritual and mental health.
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* VirtuousCharacterCopy: The Palans are a better version of the World Staters of ''Literature/BraveNewWorld'': the World Staters pursue things like promiscuous sex, drugs, and communal living in order to live hedonistic lives of pure pleasure. The Palans embrace a similar lifestyle, but to enhance and improve their spiritual and mental health.
* VirtuousCharacterCopy: The Palans are a better version of the World Staters of ''Literature/BraveNewWorld'': the World Staters pursue things like promiscuous sex, drugs, and communal living in order to live hedonistic lives of pure pleasure. The Palans embrace a similar lifestyle, but to enhance and improve their spiritual and mental health.
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* CorruptedCharacterCopy: The Palans invert this, being a better version of the World Staters of ''Literature/BraveNewWorld'': the World Staters pursue things like promiscuous sex, drugs, and communal living in order to live hedonistic lives of pure pleasure. The Palans embrace the same kind of a similar lifestyle, but to enhance and improve their spiritual and mental health.
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* ClimbingTheCliffsOfInsanity: Only because Will thinks he's on a dangerous, desert island at first. In panic, he falls off and breaks his leg. Rock climbing is actually a popular pasttime in Pala, for (again) spiritual as well as health reasons.
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* CorruptedCharacterCopy: The Palans invert this, being a better version of the World Staters of ''WesternAnimation/BraveNewWorld'': the World Staters pursue things like promiscuous sex, drugs, and communal living in order to live hedonistic lives of pure pleasure. The Palans embrace the same kind of life style, but to enhance and improve their spiritual and mental health.
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* ClimbingTheCliffsOfInsanity: Only because Will thinks he's on a dangerous, desert island at first. In panic, he falls off and breaks his leg. Rock climbing is actually a popular pasttime past-time in Pala, for (again) spiritual as well as health reasons.
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* DrivesLikeCrazy: Murugan's primary interest is cars and everything else that you can drive fast. Will, who has been a passenger before, notes only LoveMakesYouStupid enough to allow someone who drives like this behind the wheel of your car, which is out first indication of Murugan's affair with the car's owner, colonel Dipa.
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''Island'' is the last novel by Aldous Huxley.
An IntrepidReporter Will Farnaby accidentally-on-purpose crashes his yaht on the shores of Pala, the [[HiddenElfVillage forbidden]] island. The natives readily take him in, patch him up and let Will roam around as freely as one can on crutches. He finds himself more and more drawn to this new civilisation, but worries it won't be there for long, since petrol moguls are already reaching for Pala. In fact, Will himself is an unofficial representative of one.
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!! Here and now, Tropers! Pay attention to these tropes:
* AbusiveParents: Will's, especially his alcoholic father. Also, the [=MacPhails=] of Scotland, whose son managed to grow up into a decent human being and then found Pala, which is how his descendants (doctor Robert and his family) came to live there.
* AmbitionIsEvil: Murugan moans that his people have no ambition. They're simply not interested in his vision of success.
* BananaRepublic: Rendang, colonel Dipa's country on the neighbouring island, except Indian rather than Carribean. [[spoiler: Also, Pala's heading for that fate once united with Rendang.]]
* BeliefMakesYouStupid: There might be a trace of AuthorTract in it. An AuthorTract against Calvinism, mostly, but other religions are treated with a kindly and enlightened sort of OutgrownSuchSillySuperstitions.
* BookEnds: Will hallucinates both in the first and in the last chapter.
* ClimbingTheCliffsOfInsanity: Only because Will thinks he's on a dangerous, desert island at first. In panic, he falls off and breaks his leg. Rock climbing is actually a popular pasttime in Pala, for (again) spiritual as well as health reasons.
* TheCynic: Will is struggling to maintain his cynical worldview. Pala does crack it, though.
* DeathIsASadThing: Will recalls his childhood experiences while trying to process how children in Pala are brought in to see people die (or be born) on purpose, to understand these are parts of life. He has a problem reconciling how perfect Pala is with the fact that people still die there.
* DepravedHomosexual: Murugan and colonel Dipa. Although their affair is not treated as bad because it's homosexual, but because of the age gap and LoveRuinsTheRealm issues that come when an impressionable young prince is awestruck with an obviously power-hungry dictator. This said, they're both unpleasant types.
* DrivesLikeCrazy: Murugan's primary interest is cars and everything else that you can drive fast. Will, who has been a passenger before, notes only LoveMakesYouStupid enough to allow someone who drives like this behind the wheel of your car, which is out first indication of Murugan's affair with the car's owner, colonel Dipa.
* DownerEnding: Made more potent by the englightening experience Will has right before it.
* EmpathicEnvironment: The storm in chapter fourteen.
* FaceDeathWithDignity: The Palans do. They are helped through it (Susila is an expert at this sort of thing), but Will directly compares Lakshmi on her deathbed with his aunt, who did not go gentle into that good night, losing a lot of her dignity in the process.
* TheFundamentalist: The Rani is one of her own InterfaithSmoothie.
* FreeLoveFuture: Not future, obviously, but Pala is pretty lax about sex. "Yoga of love" (tantric sex) is even taught at schools for both spiritual and population control reasons.
* ForHappiness: The Palans have a distinctly buddhist view of it. Apart from the eugenics, perhaps.
* TheGoldenRule: Discussed.
* TheGoodKingdom: Pala, being a constitutional monarchy, albeit in Indian rather than European trappings (it has jungle with mynah birds, Buddha statues and old hinduist temples, they eat rice, breadfruit and vegetables there and use a mushroom-derived drug for religious purposes, while also adhering to a rather eastern sort of philosophy).
* HiddenElfVillage: Pala has always been one. [[spoiler: Up until the book ends.]]
* HigherUnderstandingThroughDrugs: Downplayed for the locals, full-on strenght for Will. The moksha-medicine is used in controlled circumstances, with carefully prepared set-and-setting and a guide to talk you through the experience.
* HonoraryUncle: Palan custom has people, when they turn of age, join Mutual Adoption Clubs in order to be {{Cool Uncle}}s and aunts for each other's children, thus avoiding a BigScrewedUpFamily that apparently ensues when family members can't take a rest from each other or be gently told to stop doing something they don't understand hurts the others. Notably - Murugan and the Rani do not practice this custom.
* ManChild: Murugan is turning eighteen in a couple of days, but he still acts like a spoiled child.
* MommasBoy: Murugan is completely under the heel of his doting, overbearing mother - Will thinks this might have affected his sexuality, especially that he doesn't really act camp, but quite, quite childish.
* NonProtagonistResolver: Technically, Will being there does not change anything. [[spoiler: Murugan and the colonel have planning this coup for a while, it seems, and]] it would have happened whether Will shipwrecked or not. He gets a little illusion of control, but ultimately decides not to do anything.
* NoPoverty: Thanks to being an enlightened place with ubiquitous birth control (mostly through tantric sex, but more traditional means are readily available, if desired), Pala has no overpopulation. Add to this very advanced agriculture and there you go.
* PerfectPacifistPeople: Pala has no army. [[spoiler: Until Murugan takes over.]]
* PollyWantsAMicrophone: The mynah birds - they have been trained to repeat "Attention!" and "Here and now, boys!" to help the Palans stay mindful.
* PosthumousCharacter: Susila's husband (also, doctor Robert's son) died in an accident a couple of months prior.
* PrettyBoy: Murugan. Will calls him Antinous for colonel Dipa's Hadrian.
* StraightGay: Neither of the homosexual men in the story acts more camp than expected of his general social position of a (supposedly sickly) prince and a military dictator, respectively. Other than that - Pala is a FreeLoveFuture type of place where people don't really have a problem with anyone's sexuality.
* StraightEdgeEvil: Apart from his affair, Murugan is vehemently against sex, drugs and rock and roll. He's been brought up this way by the Rani.
* TheTopicOfCancer: The still have it on Pala (a little girl understands it as bits of the body acting selfish) - doctor Robert's wife, Lakshmi, is dying of it. Will's beloved aunt also died of breast cancer.
* ThereAreNoGoodExecutives: It's not the question of whether or not an oil company will destroy Pala - but which one. [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Joe Aldehyde]] has authorised Will to negotiate with Palan government.
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An IntrepidReporter Will Farnaby accidentally-on-purpose crashes his yaht on the shores of Pala, the [[HiddenElfVillage forbidden]] island. The natives readily take him in, patch him up and let Will roam around as freely as one can on crutches. He finds himself more and more drawn to this new civilisation, but worries it won't be there for long, since petrol moguls are already reaching for Pala. In fact, Will himself is an unofficial representative of one.
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!! Here and now, Tropers! Pay attention to these tropes:
* AbusiveParents: Will's, especially his alcoholic father. Also, the [=MacPhails=] of Scotland, whose son managed to grow up into a decent human being and then found Pala, which is how his descendants (doctor Robert and his family) came to live there.
* AmbitionIsEvil: Murugan moans that his people have no ambition. They're simply not interested in his vision of success.
* BananaRepublic: Rendang, colonel Dipa's country on the neighbouring island, except Indian rather than Carribean. [[spoiler: Also, Pala's heading for that fate once united with Rendang.]]
* BeliefMakesYouStupid: There might be a trace of AuthorTract in it. An AuthorTract against Calvinism, mostly, but other religions are treated with a kindly and enlightened sort of OutgrownSuchSillySuperstitions.
* BookEnds: Will hallucinates both in the first and in the last chapter.
* ClimbingTheCliffsOfInsanity: Only because Will thinks he's on a dangerous, desert island at first. In panic, he falls off and breaks his leg. Rock climbing is actually a popular pasttime in Pala, for (again) spiritual as well as health reasons.
* TheCynic: Will is struggling to maintain his cynical worldview. Pala does crack it, though.
* DeathIsASadThing: Will recalls his childhood experiences while trying to process how children in Pala are brought in to see people die (or be born) on purpose, to understand these are parts of life. He has a problem reconciling how perfect Pala is with the fact that people still die there.
* DepravedHomosexual: Murugan and colonel Dipa. Although their affair is not treated as bad because it's homosexual, but because of the age gap and LoveRuinsTheRealm issues that come when an impressionable young prince is awestruck with an obviously power-hungry dictator. This said, they're both unpleasant types.
* DrivesLikeCrazy: Murugan's primary interest is cars and everything else that you can drive fast. Will, who has been a passenger before, notes only LoveMakesYouStupid enough to allow someone who drives like this behind the wheel of your car, which is out first indication of Murugan's affair with the car's owner, colonel Dipa.
* DownerEnding: Made more potent by the englightening experience Will has right before it.
* EmpathicEnvironment: The storm in chapter fourteen.
* FaceDeathWithDignity: The Palans do. They are helped through it (Susila is an expert at this sort of thing), but Will directly compares Lakshmi on her deathbed with his aunt, who did not go gentle into that good night, losing a lot of her dignity in the process.
* TheFundamentalist: The Rani is one of her own InterfaithSmoothie.
* FreeLoveFuture: Not future, obviously, but Pala is pretty lax about sex. "Yoga of love" (tantric sex) is even taught at schools for both spiritual and population control reasons.
* ForHappiness: The Palans have a distinctly buddhist view of it. Apart from the eugenics, perhaps.
* TheGoldenRule: Discussed.
* TheGoodKingdom: Pala, being a constitutional monarchy, albeit in Indian rather than European trappings (it has jungle with mynah birds, Buddha statues and old hinduist temples, they eat rice, breadfruit and vegetables there and use a mushroom-derived drug for religious purposes, while also adhering to a rather eastern sort of philosophy).
* HiddenElfVillage: Pala has always been one. [[spoiler: Up until the book ends.]]
* HigherUnderstandingThroughDrugs: Downplayed for the locals, full-on strenght for Will. The moksha-medicine is used in controlled circumstances, with carefully prepared set-and-setting and a guide to talk you through the experience.
* HonoraryUncle: Palan custom has people, when they turn of age, join Mutual Adoption Clubs in order to be {{Cool Uncle}}s and aunts for each other's children, thus avoiding a BigScrewedUpFamily that apparently ensues when family members can't take a rest from each other or be gently told to stop doing something they don't understand hurts the others. Notably - Murugan and the Rani do not practice this custom.
* ManChild: Murugan is turning eighteen in a couple of days, but he still acts like a spoiled child.
* MommasBoy: Murugan is completely under the heel of his doting, overbearing mother - Will thinks this might have affected his sexuality, especially that he doesn't really act camp, but quite, quite childish.
* NonProtagonistResolver: Technically, Will being there does not change anything. [[spoiler: Murugan and the colonel have planning this coup for a while, it seems, and]] it would have happened whether Will shipwrecked or not. He gets a little illusion of control, but ultimately decides not to do anything.
* NoPoverty: Thanks to being an enlightened place with ubiquitous birth control (mostly through tantric sex, but more traditional means are readily available, if desired), Pala has no overpopulation. Add to this very advanced agriculture and there you go.
* PerfectPacifistPeople: Pala has no army. [[spoiler: Until Murugan takes over.]]
* PollyWantsAMicrophone: The mynah birds - they have been trained to repeat "Attention!" and "Here and now, boys!" to help the Palans stay mindful.
* PosthumousCharacter: Susila's husband (also, doctor Robert's son) died in an accident a couple of months prior.
* PrettyBoy: Murugan. Will calls him Antinous for colonel Dipa's Hadrian.
* StraightGay: Neither of the homosexual men in the story acts more camp than expected of his general social position of a (supposedly sickly) prince and a military dictator, respectively. Other than that - Pala is a FreeLoveFuture type of place where people don't really have a problem with anyone's sexuality.
* StraightEdgeEvil: Apart from his affair, Murugan is vehemently against sex, drugs and rock and roll. He's been brought up this way by the Rani.
* TheTopicOfCancer: The still have it on Pala (a little girl understands it as bits of the body acting selfish) - doctor Robert's wife, Lakshmi, is dying of it. Will's beloved aunt also died of breast cancer.
* ThereAreNoGoodExecutives: It's not the question of whether or not an oil company will destroy Pala - but which one. [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Joe Aldehyde]] has authorised Will to negotiate with Palan government.
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