Brave New World story
A future dystopian society is challenged by a "savage" outsider. It is an adaptation of the novel with the same name by Aldous Huxley.
19 total · 10 major · 9 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| caste system | major | People were assigned to classes in descending order of intellectual and physical capacity: the society controlling Alphans and their helpers the Betans, the worker Deltans, Gammans and Epsilons. Each individual dressed in a caste specific colored one-piece jumper. |
| drugged up dystopia | major | The ruling class indoctrinated everyone into willingly taking the happiness-producing drug called soma in order to maintain a stable and harmonious society. |
| free love | major | We saw a society in which participation in ritual orgies was mandatory and monogamy was strictly forbidden. |
| free love utopia | major | We saw a society that maintained stability and harmony in part through compulsory participation in frequent ritual orgies. |
| indoctrination in society | major | From birth, members of every class are indoctrinated by recorded voices repeating slogans while they sleep to believe their own class is superior, but that the other classes perform needed functions. Any residual unhappiness was resolved by an antidepressant and hallucinogenic drug called soma. |
| indoctrination of the young | major | From birth, members of every class are indoctrinated by recorded voices repeating slogans while they sleep to believe their own class is superior, but that the other classes perform needed functions. Moreover, young children were taught to revolt nature using Pavlovian conditioning. |
| post-scarcity economy utopia | major | We saw a society in which nobody wanted for material goods. In a small illustration of this Bernard Marx produced a meal for the outsider John the Savage at the push of a button, and when John said he wasn't hungry, Bernard disposed of the meal without a second thought to John's great amazement. |
| questioning one's beliefs | major | John the Savage led Bernard, Helmholtz, and Lenina to question the fundamental precepts held in common by members of their society. |
| ruling elite utopia | major | The Alphans controlled society and this was accepted by the other lowers classes of people. |
| sexual norms in society | major | We saw a society in which participation in ritual orgies was mandatory and monogamy was strictly forbidden. This was contrasted with how the savages lived. In particular, the Betan Linda was beaten for having an orgy while living among the savages. |