Dec 24, 2009
Brave New World | Brave New World
At a glance:
- Author: Aldous Huxley
- First Published: 1932
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Dystopian
- Time of Work: 632 years After Ford
- Setting: London and New Mexico
- Principal Characters: Bernard Marx, Lenina Crowne, John, Mustapha Mond
- 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 Story:
One day in the year 632 After Ford (a.f.), as time
was reckoned in the brave new world, the Director of the Central
London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre took a group of new
students on a tour of the plant where human beings were turned out
by mass production. The entire process, from the fertilization of
the egg to the birth of the baby, was carried out by trained
workers and machines. Each fertilized egg was placed in solution in
a large bottle for scientific development into whatever class in
society the human was intended. The students were told that
scientists...
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