Which celebrated 1932 dystopian novel by British author Aldous Huxley portrays a technologically conditioned future society where citizens are bred into castes (Alpha to Epsilon) and pacified with the drug 'soma'?

Answer and explanation

Correct answer: C. Brave New World

  1. Step 1: Contrasting with Orwell's vision of state terror and pain, this novel depicts a totalitarian state that controls its population through conditioned pleasure, consumerism, and genetic determinism.
  2. Step 2: Aldous Huxley's 'Brave New World' juxtaposes the sterile London World State (where natural reproduction and literature are eliminated) with John 'the Savage', who was raised on a New Mexico reservation reading Shakespeare.
Answer
Brave New World
Why not the others: 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' Nineteen Eighty-Four is George Orwell's 1949 novel about a brutal totalitarian surveillance state ruled by Big Brother; 'Island' Island is Huxley's final 1962 utopian novel depicting a spiritually balanced counterpoint society on the fictional island of Pala; 'We' We is Yevgeny Zamyatin's 1924 Russian dystopian novel depicting the glass-walled urban One State ruled by the Benefactor.

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