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What is Brave New World about?
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The Use of Technology to Control Society

The reading that Huxley's novel is above all about technology as an instrument of social control, in which the same applied science that promises comfort and health is what makes obedience unnecessary to enforce.

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  1. Technology is what makes the novel's control invisible to the people living under it
  2. The technological reading is the one under which the novel still describes the present