The natural processes of birth, aging, and death represent horrors in this world.īernard Marx, an Alpha-Plus (or high-caste) psychologist, emerges as the single discontented person in a world where material comfort and physical pleasure - provided by the drug soma and recreational sex - are the only concerns.
The first scene, offering a tour of a lab where human beings are created and conditioned according to the society's strict caste system, establishes the antiseptic tone and the theme of dehumanized life.
Human life has been almost entirely industrialized - controlled by a few people at the top of a World State. Brave New World opens in London, nearly six hundred years in the future ("After Ford").
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