Brave New World

By Aldous Huxley

Categories: Literature & Fiction

In the World State, babies are grown in bottles, everyone is conditioned from birth to love their assigned place in society, and a drug called soma takes care of any unhappiness. Stability is everything, and individual freedom is gone. Bernard Marx, an outsider who doesn't quite fit in, visits a "Savage Reservation" and brings back a young man named John, who has grown up reading Shakespeare. Aldous Huxley's 1932 novel asks what we give up in exchange for comfort.

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