What is the setting of Brave New World?

Question

What is the setting of the novel? and what is the tone/mood?

Answer 1

Utopia that is in many ways negative Utopia

Reproduction without s*x-test tube

Happiness without Love-Soma

sleep teaching-brain washing                                

worship of Henry Ford

nonacceptance of an outsider

a world imperfect in it's attempt at perfection

It is a book you have to read in order to fully understand the concepts within it and even hen what you take from it may not be what Adolus Huxley intended.

Answer 2

London of AD 2540 (632 A.F. in the book) - a few chapters take place on the "Savage Reservation" in New Mexico in that same time period.

The tone could be described as "dystopian" - it's about a future gone terribly wrong, where order and civilization are achieved through terrible means.

The tone is also ironic - the author describes the "new world" as if it is a wonderful triumph of science, when in fact Huxley is trying to demonstrate the very opposite.