... it uses the results of scientific research, inasmuch as they contribute to technologies of control, but does not support science itself. The Consumer Society. It is important to understand that Brave New World is not simply a warning about what could happen to society if things go wrong, it is also a satire of the society in which Huxley existed, and which still exists today ... preserve its own stability and power. But a major difference between the two is that, whereas in 1984 control is maintained by constant government surveillance, secret police, and torture, power in Brave New Wor...

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... to live up to its own egalitarian rhetoric. The land of the free (except for slaves) and the home of the brave (and extremely violent and repressive) inculcated racial myths within Clemens during his antebellum childhood on the Mississippi that were slowly fractured, ... deny the sins of their forebears - punishment and recompense are based on accepted, if not embraced, social constructs that even new scientific expertise cannot overcome. Like the promise envisioned for the "freedmen- during Reconstruction, the idea of improved racial circumstances is completely ... Twain's depiction o...

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