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In a future society based on
pleasure without moral worries, love is prohibited but casual
sex, now called 'engaging', is strongly encouraged. Everyone is
kept happy with a legal drug, soma. People are hatched and
cloned on conveyor belts to meet the requirements of five
different social classes, from ruling Alphas to robot-like
Epsilons. Bernard Marx is a different Alpha male with an
inclination to thinking. He and a girl called Lenina Disney go
visit a reservation of 'savages' where they meet a handsome
young man John and bring him back to 'civilization'. John turns
out to be the son of the director of the cloning authority,
which causes a scandal and makes John a celebrity freak. John
falls in love with Lenina but his desire is ruined by his
antiquated sexual morale derived from reading Shakespeare. John
hates the over-social but anti-emotional civilization, asks to
be sent to live in isolation, and gets a job as a lighthouse
guard. But even there he can't forget Lenina or escape his
celebrity status. |
