Brave New World (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
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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