Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited

Synopsis

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.

Ideas Explored

• Biological Caste System
• Cultural Engineering and Control
• Rationally Designed Society
• Engineered Happiness Dystopia
• Genetic Engineering Ethics

Metadata

Source: OpenLibrary

Tags: FictionScience FictionFamilyFreedomCollectivismGenetic engineeringTotalitarianismBrainwashingCultureDystopias

isfdb_id: 1017973

openlibrary_id: OL64440W

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