Brave New World

Imagine a world where babies are made in factories, not born from moms, and everyone is sorted into groups like smart bosses or workers who love their jobs. They take a magic pill called soma to always feel happy, play sexy games with everyone, and never feel sad or fight. But a boy named John from a wild place comes and says it's all wrong because people should love, read books, and feel real feelings, even if it hurts sometimes. In the end, he can't fix the fake-happy world and gets super sad.

Aldous Huxley's 'Brave New World' (1932) depicts a dystopian World State in the year 2540 A.F. (After Ford), where human beings are mass-produced on assembly lines via the Bokanovsky Process, genetically engineered into a rigid five-caste hierarchy from Alphas to Epsilons, and conditioned from infancy through hypnopaedia and neo-Pavlovian techniques to ensure unwavering social stability and consumerist bliss. Society revolves around the worship of Henry Ford as a deity, promiscuous sex as a sacrament, and the hallucinogenic drug soma as an escape from any discomfort, eliminating family, art, religion, and individuality in favor of engineered happiness. The narrative follows outsider protagonist Bernard Marx, an Alpha male insecure about his physical shortcomings, who smuggles John the Savage—born naturally on a remote Reservation and steeped in Shakespeare—from the 'civilized' world. John's confrontation with the hedonistic utopia exposes its spiritual bankruptcy, leading to his tragic rebellion against Controller Mustapha Mond's philosophical defense of stability over freedom. Huxley's satire critiques emerging technologies and consumerism, warning of a future where humanity trades liberty and depth for shallow pleasure.