Brave New World (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Aldous Huxley
- First Published: 1932
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Science fiction
- Time of Work: 632 A.F. (After Ford)
- Setting: London and New Mexico
- Genres: Long fiction, Science fiction, Satire, Dystopian fiction
- Subjects: Values, Social issues, Future, Science or scientists, Alienation, Class consciousness, Individuality, Human race, Drugs, London, Science fiction, Southwest, Totalitarianism, Technology, Brainwashing, Bioethics
- Locales: London, England, New Mexico
Characters Discussed
Bernard Marx, a citizen of the world in the year 632 a.f. (After Ford), a world in which individuality has long been forgotten, a world dehumanized and organized around the motto “Community, Identity, Stability.” Marx, born of a “prenatal bottle” instead of woman, is an anomaly in the community because too much alcohol got into his blood surrogate while he was incubating before birth. He has sensibilities, therefore, similar to those of people living during the time of Henry Ford. Marx conducts an experiment that fails: By studying a savage named...
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