In Brave New World, Aldous Huxley prophesied a capitalist civilization, which had been reconstituted through scientific and psychological engineering, a world in which people are genetically designed to be passive and useful to the ruling class. Huxley opens the book by allowing the reader to eavesdrop on the tour …
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In Brave New World, Aldous Huxley prophesied a capitalist civilization, which had been reconstituted through scientific and psychological engineering, a world in which people are genetically designed to be passive and useful to the ruling class. Huxley opens the book by allowing the reader to eavesdrop on the tour of the fertilizing Room of the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning center, where the high tech reproduction takes place. One of the characters, Bernard Marx, seems alone, harboring an ill-defined longing to break free. Satirical and disturbing, Brave New World is set some 600 years into the future. Reproduction is controlled through genetic engineering, and people are bred into a rigid class system. As they mature, they are conditioned to be happy with the roles that society has created for them.
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- 1977
- GoodReads:
- 5129
- BNF ID:
- 119472943
Editions of Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited
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Mondo nuovo-Ritorno al mondo nuovo
Italian language
Published Aug. 17, 2001
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- 978-88-04-48780-7Copied ISBN!
Brave New World and Brave New World revisited
310 pages
English language
Published July 24, 1960 by Harper.
Brave New World
Published March 22, 1932 by Harper Perennial Classics.
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- 978-0-06-269612-0Copied ISBN!
Brave New World & Brave New World Revisited
Hardcover
English language
Published July 24, 1965 by HarperCollins.
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- 978-0-06-018722-4Copied ISBN!
Brave new world
302 pages
English language
Published Nov. 8, 1983 by Charnwood.
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- 978-0-7089-8104-7Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 9509343
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