Brave New World story
A future dystopian society is challenged by a "savage" outsider. The movie loosely follows the plot of Aldous Huxley's 1932 novel of the same name.
17 total · 11 major · 6 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. |
| 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 promiscuity was every citizen's duty. |
| free love utopia | major | We saw a society that maintained stability and harmony in part through mass and frequent promiscuity by all citizens. |
| indoctrination in society | major | The society controllers ensured that everyone was conditioned from birth to follow stability and harmony ensuring societal norms. |
| indoctrination of the young | major | We repeatedly saw children being conditioned both in and out of school. In one pointed example, children were brought in to play around dead bodies in an effort to condition them into thinking that dead is to be celebrated. |
| post-scarcity economy utopia | major | We saw a society in which people seemingly wanted for no material and lived in luxury, safety, and unsettling harmony. |
| questioning one's beliefs | major | The "savage" John Cooper opened Bernard Marx and Lenina Crowne indoctrinated minds such aspects of the human condition as the appreciation of literature and the feeling of being in love. |
| romantic love | major | Bernard Marx and Lenina Crowne fell in love and had a child together. |
| sexual norms in society | major | We saw a society in which promiscuity was every citizen's duty and monogamy was strictly forbidden. This was contrasted the "savages" who generally practiced monogamy. |