Brave New World
In a pleasure-driven future where citizens are engineered and conditioned for obedience, one outsider questions the cost of happiness.
First published 2004 · Brave New World
ClassicsScience Fiction
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Story
A futuristic World State has replaced family, religion, and individual choice with engineered birth, caste design, conditioning, and chemically managed happiness. Most citizens accept the system because they have been raised to fit it.
The story follows a few figures who do not fit cleanly into this order, including a social misfit inside the system and an outsider raised apart from it. Their movement between the engineered society and an outside reserve exposes the contrast between comfort, freedom, and human cost.
As the outsiders confront the society's leaders and its assumptions, the novel turns into an extended debate about happiness, control, individuality, and meaning. The ending leaves the tension unresolved, emphasizing the price of stability and the limits of the world that has been built.
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- Authors
- Aldous Huxley
- First published
- 2004
- Genres
- Classics, Science Fiction, Dystopia, School, Philosophy, Fantasy
- Subjects
- Utopias · Brainwashing · Moral and ethical aspects of Science · Fiction · Science and state · Social problems · Passivity (Psychology) · Culture · Propaganda · Genetic engineering · English fiction · Science fiction · Dystopias · Totalitarianism · Collectivism · Control (Psychology) · History and criticism · Ciencia-ficción · Lavado de cerebro · Ficción · Science-fiction anglaise · Science-fiction · Reading Level-Grade 9 · Reading Level-Grade 11 · Reading Level-Grade 10 · Reading Level-Grade 12 · Gesellschaft · Moral and ethical aspects · Totalitarismus · Ethics · British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author) · Fiction, psychological · Fiction, political · Fiction, science fiction, general · Long Now Manual for Civilization · Spanish fiction · Capitalism · Dystopia · satire · class systems · London · future · capitalist civilization · English Science fiction · Large type books · Psychological fiction · Political fiction · Classics · Dystopian · New York Times reviewed · Fiction, general · English literature · American fiction (fictional works by one author) · Control (Psicología) · Aspectos morales y éticos · Ciencia y Estado · Ciencia · collectionID:ConroeChallenge · Audiobooks · Atomic bomb · Desertification · Radioactive pollution · Environmental aspects · Nature · Effect of human beings on · Realism in literature · Fiction in english · Angleška književnost · Roman · Human behavior · Forecasting · Passivité (Psychologie) · Romans, nouvelles · Totalitarisme · Collectivisme · Literature
- ISBN-13
- 9780060929879
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