6/22/2023 0 Comments Brave new world dystopian![]() Humans are born in factories, designed to fit one of five predestined roles. Embracing peace and order after the bloody chaos of the first world war, people have used technology to radically simplify their society. The book is Huxley’s idea of what would happen if the 1930s were to run on forever. Then Huxley visited the US, and what he made of society there – brash, colourful, shallow and self-obsessed – set the engines of his imagination speeding. Wells’s utopian works – novels such as Men Like Gods (1923), for instance. The other, Brave New World, was written in the space between world wars by the young satirist Aldous Huxley. The more famous one is 1984, George Orwell’s tale of a world unified into a handful of warring blocs run by dictators. ![]() THE 20th century produced two great British dystopias. ![]()
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