![]() ![]() Huxley answered this book with a reassessment in an essay, "Brave New World Revisited" (1958), and with Island (1962), his final novel. "Hug me till you drug me, honey Kiss me till I'm in a coma: Hug me, honey, snuggly bunny Love's as good as soma."-Lenina Crowne-chapter 11Ī dystopian novel set in London in AD 2540 (632 A.F.-"After Ford"-in the book), the story anticipates developments in reproductive technology, sleep-learning, psychological manipulation, and classical conditioning that combine profoundly to change society. The novel's title is derived from Miranda's speech in William Shakespeare's The Tempest, Act V, Scene I: "O wonder! How many godly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world, That has such people in't."
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