Brave new world
and, Brave new world revisited
by Aldous Huxley
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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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Fiction, Science Fiction, Family, Freedom, Collectivism, Genetic engineering, Totalitarianism, Brainwashing, Culture, Dystopias, Propaganda, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), Passivity (Psychology), Fiction, psychological, Fiction, science fiction, general, Fiction, political, Overpopulation, Selling, Brave new world (Huxley, Aldous), Passivité (Psychologie), Romans, nouvelles, Totalitarisme, CollectivismePeople
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Brave New World Brave New World Revisited
2007, Random House of Canada
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0307356558 9780307356550
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Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited
July 5, 2005, Harper Perennial Modern Classics
in English
0060776099 9780060776091
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Brave new world: and, Brave new world revisited
2004, HarperCollins
in English
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0060535261 9780060535261
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First work originally published: New York : Harper, [1932]. 2nd work originally published: New York : Harper, [1958].
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