Brave New World is a science fiction novel written by Aldous Huxley. The book is set in a utopian society where social classes are incredibly rigid. The lower classes are stunted from birth by alcohol and chemicals injected in them when they are in the artificial womb. Of the main characters is Bernard, a strange looking and acting alpha. It is rumored that he is stunted because alcohol was injected in his blood surrogate (artificial womb). Brave New World written by Aldous Huxley exemplifies science fiction because it includes three characteristics of the genre; including imaginary events that involve science or technology, involves partially true theories of science, and it is set in a different society.
Brave New World is an example of science fiction because the plot includes events that involve science and technology. Including events that involve science and technology is important because it tells the reader that the society that the characters live in is heavily reliant on technology. An example of this is the following …show more content…
In Brave New World, the concept of faithfulness in a relationship does not exist. Everyone freely has sex with everyone all the time. Even children play games like “hunt the zipper”. "But every one belongs to every one else," he concluded, citing the hypnopaedic proverb. The students nodded, emphatically agreeing with a statement which upwards of sixty-two thousand repetitions in the dark had made them accept, not merely as true, but as axiomatic, self-evident, utterly in- disputable. Once children started being grown in bottles, sex was purely for pleasure. In a society where pleasure is the goal, sex happens often and with everyone. The concept of love was abolished and lust took its place. -This society is very different from our society and especially society when Brave New World was written
Brave New World is an example of science fiction because the plot includes events that involve science and technology. Including events that involve science and technology is important because it tells the reader that the society that the characters live in is heavily reliant on technology. An example of this is the following …show more content…
In Brave New World, the concept of faithfulness in a relationship does not exist. Everyone freely has sex with everyone all the time. Even children play games like “hunt the zipper”. "But every one belongs to every one else," he concluded, citing the hypnopaedic proverb. The students nodded, emphatically agreeing with a statement which upwards of sixty-two thousand repetitions in the dark had made them accept, not merely as true, but as axiomatic, self-evident, utterly in- disputable. Once children started being grown in bottles, sex was purely for pleasure. In a society where pleasure is the goal, sex happens often and with everyone. The concept of love was abolished and lust took its place. -This society is very different from our society and especially society when Brave New World was written