Children are created in artificial wombs and then sorted into castes, where they will go about their assigned labor without a second thought. Yet its influence is immense.īrave New World largely takes place in New London, a society wherein everybody is happy all of the time. All of the actors that SYFY WIRE spoke to during the press junket for the Peacock series admitted they hadn’t read the book growing up. Perhaps because most high school curricula only have room for one English novel about a dystopian future, Brave New World isn’t as widely read as Nineteen Eighty-Four. Brave New World has been adapted into a TV series for the upcoming streaming service Peacock, and the showrunner and cast all agree - even though Brave New World’s futuristic society seems utopian on the surface, it’s actually much scarier and more relevant than Nineteen Eighty-Four's. Almost two decades earlier, Aldous Huxley published Brave New World, another chilling tale that envisioned a future where society was repressed not by force or fascism, but by pleasure. The book, which introduced the world to Big Brother, Newspeak, and other Orwellian bits of fascistic lingo, is a classic for a reason, but it’s not the only hugely influential novel about a dystopian future. If you took any English classes in high school, chances are you read George Orwell’s masterpiece Nineteen Eighty-Four.
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