Brave New World | Literary Precedents
Utopian literature has long been a staple of western writing. Homer, Plato, Dante, Sir Thomas More, Jonathan Swift, Voltaire, H. G. Wells all wrote works which posited and sometimes demolished Utopian societies. Huxley's novel is in many ways the inheritor of a long tradition of such works. Its one radical difference is in his attitude toward the role of science or advanced learning within that society. For Huxley the future was ominous. If science remained uncontrolled and undisciplined by mature social and political wisdom, the danger was that ultimately technological advances would...
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