Brave New World is a science fiction novel that is about a society where happiness has been achieved. The story begins in London some 600 years into the future. The world is run by tenWorld Controllers. Reproduction has been removed from the womb and people are made in bottles by generic engineering. Each human is engineered and conditioned to predestined work. People are made into different levels of intelligence, and everyone belongs to one of five classes. These classes range from Alphas, who are most intelligent, to the Epsilons, who are dim-whitted and are produced to do the dirty jobs that nobody else wants to do. In this society happiness is carried out to extremes. It does its best to demolish any painful or undesirable emotions. Thats why the idea of a family was abolished, because it may bring feelings that are unhappy. Also, everyone is used to the idea of death as a natural process, because they were conditioned earlier to accept it as this. As if all this wasnt enough already, soma was introduced into the society. Soma is a drug that calms people down and makes them forget about any unpleasant thoughts, without the bad side effects that todays drugs may have. The story is set in 632 A.F. (After Ford), which begins with Lenina Crowne going to the dressing room after work. There she meets her friend Fanny Crowne (they have the same last name because only 10,000 last names are used in this society) and talks with her. There, they talk with each other about who is sleeping with who since in this society everyone belongs to everyone else, they have the right to sleep with whomever they want. Lenina says that she is currently with Henry Foster and has been for four months. Fanny nags Lenina about this and tells her to get another man. So Lenina decides to go with Bernard Marx who has invited her to go with him to a Savage Reservation, which is an uncivilized place filled with poverty, religion, fee...
