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Question
What is Brave New World about?
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The Dangers of an All-Powerful State

The reading that Huxley's novel is a warning about concentrated political power, on the grounds that every other mechanism in it — technological, economic and psychological — requires a single authority able to apply it to a whole society.

Supporting arguments · 2

  1. Every mechanism in the novel presupposes an authority able to apply it to a whole society
  2. Reading the novel as a warning about concentrated power is what places it among dystopias at all