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On a one-dimensional level, Brave New World is the portrait of a perfect society. The citizens of this Utopia live in a society that is free of depression and most of the social-economic problems that trouble the world today. All aspects of life are controlled for the people of this society; population numbers, social class and intellectual ability. History is controlled and rewritten to suit the needs of the state. All of this is done in the name of social stability. When one looks beneath the surface of this perfect society it becomes evident that it is nothing of the sort.
Eugenics, social conditioning, and anti-depressant drugs have solved many of the problems faced by many modern societies; poverty, class tension and overpopulation; but at the costs of individuality.
The citizens of Brave New World are engineered to suit the needs of the state. Individual expression is unattainable because everyone is conditioned to think alike. Brave New World is a book about a future......

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