![]() ![]() The irony is that all of these things have been achieved by eliminating many things that humans consider to be central to their identity - family, culture, art, literature, science, religion, and philosophy. Warfare and poverty have been eliminated and everyone is permanently happy. The world the novel describes is a utopia, albeit an ironic one: humanity is carefree, healthy and technologically advanced. Huxley answers this novel with a reassessment in his 1958 non-fiction text, Brave New World Revisited, also summarized below. ![]() Set in London in 2540 (or AF 632), the novel anticipates developments in reproductive technology, biological engineering, and sleep-learning that combine to change society. Brave New World is a dystopian novel by Aldous Huxley, first published in 1932. ![]()
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