Huxley does a great job of creating a fully realized future described with a generous amount of satire as he finds ways to poke fun at just about every aspect of society. If any individual starts to experience discontentment or unhappiness, they can pop a few Soma pills, a drug that help make anyone feel good and forget about all troubles. It has also eliminated traditional religions which have been replaced with consumerism and instant gratification of all needs. The novel continues with further descriptions of a civilization that has finally succeeded in eliminating war. I could go on but for more fascinating details, you should read the novel.
In addition, different levels of intelligence are purposefully developed so that jobs can be matched to workers with an appropriate intelligence for the job. This allows whole factories to be staffed with identical workers. Test tube reproduction has been optimized with the ability to divide the fertilized eggs to create up to 96 identical eggs from the original.
Natural birth has been completely eliminated in civilized countries. Nineteen Eighty-Four is the most famous of these novels with the iconic image of “Big Brother” but for my money, Brave New World is the best.īrave New World starts off with a tour of a new kind of factory that produces human babies through methods of mass production. Besides the fact that these 3 novels contain quality writing, they also all contain scary projections or warnings about where the future could lead. All three are also in the subcategory of utopian/dystopian fiction. This novel, along with George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four and Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 are probably the most famous literature classics that also fall into the science fiction category. Brave New World is one of the few science fiction classics that are also generally considered a classic of literature.
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