Brave New World

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Brave New World is a dystopian novel by Aldous Huxley, first published in 1932. Set in London in 2349, the novel anticipates developments in reproductive technology, biological engineering, and sleep-learning that combine to change society.

The world it describes could also be a utopia, albeit an ironic one: humanity is carefree, healthy and technologically advanced. Warfare and poverty have been eliminated and everyone is permanently happy. The irony is that all of these things have been achieved by eliminating many things people currently derive happiness from �?family, cultural diversity, art, literature, science, religion and philosophy. It is also a hedonistic society, deriving pleasure from promiscuous sex and drug use, especially the use of soma, a powerful stimulant taken to escape pain and bad memories through hallucinatory fantasies.

Brave New World is Huxley’s most famous novel. The title comes from Miranda’s speech in Shakespeare’s The Tempest, Act V, Scene I:

“O wonder!
How many goodly creatures are there here!
How beautious mankind is!
O brave new world,
That has such people in’t!”

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