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Satire In Aldous Huxley's Brave New World

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My favorite book is Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, he was born in 1894 and died in 1963. Written in 1931. A futuristic society where humans are born out of test tubes and kept in rigid social classes. This may not seem like a humorous premise for a novel, but Huxley uses satire, which is a type of humor used to make a serious point. The humans in Brave New World learn through sleep teaching, Huxley calls this “hypnopedia”. Everyone is kept “happy” in the brave new world by taking a pill called soma, there is one character named John the Savage who does not take soma. because he comes from a different part of the world where there is no technology, and he believes in natural ways of living. It turns out that John has a big problem with the
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