Essay Archive - Brave New World: Huxley Predicted Many Events of the Future
Brave New World: Huxley Predicted Many Events of the Future
Aldous Huxley wrote Brave New World out of fear of society's apparent lack
of morals and corrupt behaviour during the roaring twenties. Huxley believed
that the future was doomed to a non-individualistic, conformist society, a
society void of the family unit, religion and human emotions. Throughout the
novel, Huxley predicts many events for the future, most of which concentrate on
a morally corrupt society. The most important of these predictions include:
greater sexual freedom, over-population, brain-washing/slee....
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