Perfect Society In Brave New World

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“Brave New World” is one of the most outstanding fiction novel of the twentieth century. This novel was written by Aldous Leonard Huxley in 1931 and published in 1932. Huxley was born in 1894 in England and died in the United States of America in 1963. In the novel, the author satirically describes a perfect society where many of their main characters still have human feelings which provokes that some of them collide with society’s rules. Bernard Marx, John “Mr. Savage”, and Lenina Crowne are the principal personages, but the author also presents some secondary characters; one of them is called Darwin Bonaparte. According to the novel, he is the most important and expert photographer in that perfect world. Some lines of the book let see the

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