| Huxley's distopian novel set in the year 600AF has become one of fiction's finest expositions of the dangers to the individual of the powers of the state. |
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A close focus
Brave New World
was written in 1932 and fits neatly between two other utopian or distopian novels. A Russian writer, Zamyatin, had published his novel in 1928, entitled
We, and in 1948, George Orwell published
Nineteen Eighty Four.
Of the three, Zamyatin’s is the darkest vision, Orwell’s the most well known, and probably most misunderstood, since it is often viewed as a prediction rather than the warning it really was. Huxley, in many ways, was the more accurate in his warnings, at least in the broad sweep of his concerns with drugs and technology.
Characters
Oneof the central philosophies of the society is to remove all unhappiness. The response of the characters determines the course of the novel.
Issues
Huxley warned of:
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mind control
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selective breeding of human beings in a laboratory
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biogenetic engineering
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the relentless pursuit of scientific 'progress' |
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