Literature at Lunchtime - Brave New World

Written in 1931, almost 20 years before Orwell’s ‘1984’, is this future dystopia becoming more and more a probability...

with Dr Jane Mackay

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

With its ironic title taken from Shakespeare’s ‘The Tempest’, this is Huxley’s projection of a future in which individuality can find no place. Written in 1931, almost 20 years before Orwell’s ‘1984’, is this future dystopia becoming more and more a probability...or is it, in fact, already here?

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