Brave New World
Bernard Marx, a citizen in a utopian World-State where babies are born in laboratories, there is no violence, all citizens take drugs for depression, and contentment overrides the free will of the populace, embarks on a tragic search for truth after he begins to feel something is missing from life.
FIC
year: 2017
copies: 161
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 870
subjects: brainwashing, science fiction, dystopias, culture, propaganda, control (psychology), science and state, utopias, technology and civilization, science, collectivism [X], totalitarianism, genetic engineering, passivity (psychology), large type books, psychology, dystopian fiction, satirical literature, political fiction [X], psychological fiction, science fiction
Brave New World
Bernard Marx becomes a citizen in an utopian World-State where babies are born in laboratories, there is no violence, all citizens take drugs for depression, and contentment overrides the free will of the populace, and presents the social climate in 1958, and the threats against personal freedoms that seemed to be precursers to the novel's empty civilization.
FIC
year: 2005
copies: 8
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: passivity (psychology), genetic engineering, totalitarianism, collectivism [X], psychological fiction, political fiction [X], science fiction, dystopias, huxley, aldous