Aldous Huxley's Brave New World Revisited

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Aldous Huxley wrote two books that have similar names, Brave New World(as BNW in the following paragraphs) and Brave New World Revisited(as Revisited in the following paragraph), and they are as different as a bird and an elephant. One is about a hypothetical world in the future and the other is about real-life non-fiction problems based on scientific research.

The writing style of BNW is very poetic. Huxley depicts many dreamy and unreal scenes. Thousands of infants are brainwashed while they are sleeping, when the government broadcasts slogans for hundreds and thousands of times with huge speakers. People take soma, which is a kind of drug provided by the government, to help them escape sadness, anxiety and anything negative. Huxley showed

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