Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Far in the future, the World Controllers have created the ideal society. Through genetic engineering, brainwashing and recreational sex and drugs all its members are happy consumers. Bernard Marx seems alone in feeling discontent, harbouring an ill-defined longing to break free. A visit to one of the few remaining Savage Reservations, where the old, imperfect life still continues, may be the cure for his distress…
Trigger & Content Warnings:
- Racism & racial slurs
- Queermisia
- Misogyny
- Eugenics
- Cheating
- Suicide
- Self harm, including self-flagellation
- Domestic abuse & violence
- Child abuse
- Recreational drug use & abuse
- Overdose mentioned
- Emesis
- Death of a parent
- Hanging
- Electrocution
- Animal neglect
- Animal death & dead bodies
