Brave New World | Social Concerns
Aldous Huxley has been compared to H. G. Wells as a popularizer of science but unlike Wells who perceived science as providing the possibilities for a Utopian future, Huxley saw science as potentially a destroyer of humanity and individual freedom. Unlike Wells's The Shape of Things to Come (1933), Huxley's Brave New World is a novel in which human beings have been reduced to subservient automatons by an autocratic government using a wide variety of scientific controls from eugenics and postnatal conditioning to mind-torture and soporific drugs. It is a nightmare world of...
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