A Brave New World was written about the future so there are no reflections of the history, behavior or social issues. The Savage however, make references to the Bible and several times throughout the book you find him quoting Shakespeare. The Savage is one of the very few people in "civilization" that know about God and the Bible or Shakespeare. He really seems to like Shakespeare. He is always walking around quoting things that Shakespeare has written and of course no one knows what he is talking about because no one in the new civilization even knows who Shakespeare is. The Savage was just lucky enough to have gotten a Shakespeare book back when he lived in the reservation with his mother. The novel does however symbolize what the far off future could perhaps someday be like. For this novel being written in the 1940's I thought that the author's ideas of the future were very advanced for his time period. There were not many other books written like this one in the 1940's. I think that Aldous Huxley could have been a pioneer author for books of this type in that time frame.
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