![]() Everyone is encouraged to consume the ubiquitous drug soma, a hallucinogen that takes users on enjoyable, hangover-free 'holidays', and it was developed expressly for this purpose. All members of society are conditioned in childhood to hold the values that the World State idealizes, which improves societal stability and quality of life. Natural reproduction has been done away with and society is divided into five castes: Alphas, Betas, Gammas, Deltas, and Epsilons, each Alpha or Beta is the product of one fertilized egg developing into one fetus, instead members of other castes are not unique but are instead created using clonation. Setting (the real protagonist) The novel opens in London in the 'year of our Ford 632' (AD 2540) and the vast majority of the population is unified under The World State, an eternally peaceful, stable global society in which goods and resources are plentiful and everyone is happy. ![]() Translations of the novel into other languages often allude to similar expressions used in an attempt to capture the same irony. ![]() ![]() The origin of the title Brave New World' s ironic title derives from Miranda's speech in Shakespeare's The Tempest : O wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world! That has such people in't! This line is word-by-word quoted in the novel by John the Savage, when he first sees Lenina.The expression 'brave new world' also appears in Émile Zola's Germinal and in Rudyard Kipling's 1919 poem The Gods of the Copybook Headings. In 1937 he moved to southern California and in 1963 he died in America. In 1932 he write his most most famous work “Brave New World”. Then when World War I broke out he was declared unfit for military. In 1915 he went to Eton and then to Oxford, taking his degree. He was the grandson of Thomas Henry Huxley, Victorian scientist who had greatly contributed to the diffusion of the theory of evolution. ![]() Aldous Huxley Aldous Huxley was born in Surrey, southern England, in 1894, into an estabilished intellectual family. ![]()
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