Brave New World | Brave New World

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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

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...

Brave New World | Brave New World

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