Brave New World is a novel by Aldous Huxley. It was first published in 1932. The title is taken from The Tempest in Miranda's
words: 'O brave new world/That has such people in't!'
After Ford, that is, the 26th century, in the year 632, the world is suppose to attain a kind of utopia, in which the means of production are in state ownership and the principle 'from each according to his ability, to each according to his need' is religiously followed.
Biological engineering fits different categories of workers to their stations in life; the universal happiness is preserved by psychotropic drugs.
Then comes the Savage as a stranger into this world, raised in a reservation of American Indian primitives. He takes up the arguments introduced by the disaffected intellectuals Bernard Marx and Helmholtz Watson, debating the merits of freedom and passion with World Controller Mustapha Mond.
Savage yields in the end to the temptations of the carefree world, and out of disgust kills himself.
Brave New World can sometimes be a scary piece of work by Huxley, a terrifying utopia where people become devoid of ordinary feelings and caring, controlled and devoured by the power of technology. The novel provides a scathing criticism of the values inert in the myth of social salvation through modern developments in high-technology and , in particular, psycho-chemistry and biological engineering.