Brave New World (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Aldous Huxley
- First Published: 1932
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Science fiction—dystopia
- Time of Work: Half a millennium in the future
- Setting: What are now the United Kingdom and the United States
- 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
The Plot
In the totalitarian state of Brave New World, people are socially conditioned from conception; they are hatched from test tubes rather than being born. Something is wrong with Bernard Marx. Although he ought to be, in keeping with everyone else in this engineered society, an absolute conformist, he evinces certain quirks that his fellows find disturbing. They theorize that something must have gone wrong chemically during his incubation. Bernard dates Lenina Crowne, but he wants her all to himself. This is against the mores of their society, which prescribes...
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