History Literature / BraveNewWorld

* EverybodyHasLotsOfSex: Enforced by the society. Children play erotic games, adults have many partners, and abstaining is viewed as morally wrong.

* EverybodyHasLotsOfSex: {{Enforced}} by the society. Children play erotic games, adults have many partners, and abstaining is viewed as morally wrong.

A 1932 dystopian novel written by Aldous Huxley. Quite possibly the only serious Western {{Dystopia}} involving ''too much'' happiness... [[BreadAndCircuses as provided by the totalitarian state.]]

** Inverted in the Savage Reservation, where people are supposed to be monogamous; at one point, several village woman whip Linda for seducing all their husbands.

* AlternativeCalendar: The story starts in 632 AF ("After Ford"), or AD 2540. 1 AF was 1908, the year the Model T came out.

* CloningBlues: Inverted. The population is made up of clones of relatively few original people, [[spoiler:but John, who was born of a woman because she lost her access to birth control, finds he doesn't fit in and ends up killing himself]].

* {{Hypocrite}}: Bernard towards women. He can't stand that most pretty girls don't want to have him because he's unattractive, yet he can't stand having unattractive women. He scowls and seethes over how [[JustForPun "Alpha" men]] view women like Lenina as meat, assuring himself that ''he'' appreciates her personality; yet the only reason he likes her is because of her physical beauty and ''not'' her mind (such as it is). Finally, while he raged against the objectification of women by society's mandated casual dating culture when he himself couldn't score a date, the second he becomes popular due to knowing John the Savage he wastes no time banging as many hot chicks as possible (having, at this point, forgotten all about Lenina).

* LongTitle: An in-universe jazz standard, "There ain't no Bottle in all the world like that dear little Bottle of mine".

The only exception to all of this are the "[[RefugeInAudacity Savage Reservations]]", barbaric and primal communities where people still live with nature and its cruelties and limitations, where people are born naturally and know the full range of emotions. After growing up on a New Mexico reservation, one of the novel's protagonists leaves for the wider world ([[LeaningOnTheFourthWall along with]] [[ShoutOutToShakespeare bringing some Shakepeare with him]]), where he quickly becomes a celebrity but at the cost of his own sanity as his ideals and emotions [[FishOutOfWater clash horribly with that of the rest of society]].

This novel is famous for quite a few things. For one, the biological techniques described in the book (such as cloning) would turn out to be remarkably similar to those used in the modern day, despite this novel being written in the 1920s, ''decades'' before real science would ever reach this stage. It helps that Huxley was a member of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huxley_family one of Britain's most important and productive scientific families]] (his older brother Julian was a leading evolutionary biologist and his grandfather Thomas was Darwin's Bulldog, the man who argued Darwin's idea in public for him).

Also, this book is frequently compared to ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour'' -- even by Huxley himself -- as a way of showing the perspectives of the dystopia-esque society. Note that ''Nineteen Eighty-Four'' shows that [[BigBrotherIsWatching what we fear controls us]], while ''Brave New World'' shows that what we ''love'' [[MemeticMutation controls us.]][[note]]The most famous expression of this argument was in the introduction to media scholar Neil Postman's 1985 work ''[[https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/297276/amusing-ourselves-to-death-by-neil-postman/ Amusing Ourselves to Death]]''.[[/note]]

* SelfPunishmentOverFailure: John punishes himself in isolation (and with [[WhipItGood whips]]) for falling into the temptation of sex [[spoiler: before eventually hanging himself.]]

* CompleteTheQuoteTitle: "[[Theatre/TheTempest O brave new world / That has such people in’t!]]”

* RefugeInAudacity: [[{{Invoked}} Literally applied in-universe]] as TheThemeParkVersion. The "Savage Reservations" have people who were deemed as unusual and irresponsible while in this new world. If it comes to the point where a person has to be deported, they have the [[MortonsFork option to pick which island they want to go to]].

* OnlySixFaces: The Delta and Epsilon classes consist of group of ''thousands'' of identical "twins" grown from a single egg. [[spoiler:Most evident in the scene near the end of the book, where The Savage comes up against the menial staff of the Park Lane Hospital coming off their shift; hundreds of people but only two faces, one male and the other female.]]

* ReassignedToAntarctica: Well, to Iceland, actually. However Bernard takes revenge on his boss before that happen.

Huxley has often been accused (including by Creator/KurtVonnegut) of plagiarizing ''Literature/{{We}}'' in writing ''Brave New World''. Despite the numerous similarities between the two books, Huxley always denied this, so compare and contrast the two.

In the future, most of humanity and the environment people live in has been tailored to make everyone happy. [[FantasticCasteSystem There are five castes of people (Alphas through Epsilons), divided further into sub-castes ranging from the leader Alpha Pluses down through the barely-human grunt Epsilon-Minus Semi-Morons.]] Everyone is grown in jars and their general roles in society planned before "birth". The population is pacified with virtual reality, needlessly complex sports, crowd activities, and the pleasure drug soma. Human needs are satisfied--by biological engineering when necessary; orgies are the norm; and anything that might possibly cause dissatisfaction is simply left out of society.

In the future, most of humanity and the environment people live in has been tailored to make everyone happy. There are five castes of people (Alphas through Epsilons), divided further into sub-castes ranging from the leader Alpha Pluses down through the barely-human grunt Epsilon-Minus Semi-Morons. Everyone is grown in jars and their general roles in society planned before "birth". The population is pacified with virtual reality, needlessly complex sports, crowd activities, and the pleasure drug soma. Human needs are satisfied--by biological engineering when necessary; orgies are the norm; and anything that might possibly cause dissatisfaction is simply left out of society.

* TheBeautifulElite: In the upper castes, everyone is genetically engineered to look beautiful, and they show no signs of aging.

* GreekLetterRanks: One of the {{Trope Codifier}}s. People are genetically engineered and designed to fit into castes ranging from Alpha (the best and brightest) to Epsilon (simple-minded workers for the simplest jobs).

* GeniusBreedingAct: Embryos are created in labs, and people are born into different classes: Alpha, Beta, Delta, Gamma, and Epsilon. These groups are engineered to have different intelligence levels both through genetic selection and differences in their artificial fetal environment; for example, an Alpha is made from Alpha gametes ''and'' incubated in an optimal fetal environment, while Gammas and Epsilons not only have inferior genes but are also exposed to alcohol ''in vitro''.