History Trivia / BraveNewWorld

* CreatorBacklash: While Huxley didn't denounce the work as a whole, he ''did'' regret the DownerEnding where John is [[DrivenToSuicide found dead from hanging himself]][[note]]which is also how the 1980 UK TV movie version ended, along with an epilogue that reveals that Mustafa Mond's social experiment involving John the Savage was a failure and telling his secretary to get rid of everything involving it[[/note]], wishing he'd given John Savage a [[TakeAThirdOption third choice]] between the barbaric world he'd escaped from and the decadent world he'd become disillusioned by[[note]]it should be noted that the 1998 US TV movie version is more-or-less a BittersweetEnding. While John dies after the paparazzi force him to fall off a cliff, Bernard and Lenina leave their society to live on a free island after Lenina tells Bernard that she's pregnant and the unnamed redhead boy who was struggling to get some sleep in the beginning uses some cotton from his pillow to block out the hypnotherapy, meaning that, while John the Savage died, he didn't die in vain, as Lenina and Bernard are now free to act like loving, caring human beings and that John's personality was an inspiration for a new generation[[/note]]. Huxley's final novel ''Island'', though not a direct sequel to ''BNW'', was essentially written to expand on this idea.

* CreatorBacklash: While Huxley didn't denounce the work as a whole, he ''did'' regret the DownerEnding where John is [[DrivenToSuicide found dead from hanging himself]][[note]]which is also how the 1980 UK TV movie version ended, along with an epilogue that reveals that Mustafa Mond's social experiment involving John the Savage was a failure and telling his secretary to get rid of everything involving it[[/note]], wishing he'd given John Savage a [[TakeAThirdOption third choice]] between the barbaric world he'd escaped from and the decadent world he'd become disillusioned by[[note]]it should be noted that the 1998 US TV movie version is more-or-less a BittersweetEnding. While John dies after the paparazzi force him to fall off a cliff, Bernard and Lenina leave their society to live on a free island after Lenina tells Bernard that she's pregnant and the unnamed redhead boy who was struggling to get some sleep in the beginning uses some cotton from his pillow to block out the hypnotherapy, meaning that, while John the Savage died, he didn't die in vain, as Lenina and Bernard are now free to act like loving, caring human beings and that John's personality was an inspiration for a new generation[[/note]].

* ScienceMarchesOn: Huxley was ahead of his time in saying that fetal exposure to alcohol is unhealthy, but his assumption that it's possible to create a specific level of disability with a specific amount of alcohol is not true. In real life, the results are immensely more variable than Huxley suggests, and much of the difference has to be random chance: it's common for one member of a pair of identical twins born to an alcoholic to be severely disabled and the other to be completely normal. His assumption that women need to go through fake pregnancy if they don't really get pregnant, and that darker-skinned women need to go through it at an earlier age because they're "...born to have babies young", is an unfortunate remnant of early 20th century racial and sexual theories that portrayed women in general as constantly subject to [[MyBiologicalClockIsTicking obeying their biological clock]] and black people (both men and women) as being more primitive on a biological level.

* CreatorBacklash: While Huxley didn't denounce the work as a whole, he ''did'' regret the DownerEnding where John is found dead from hanging himself[[note]]which is also how the 1980 UK TV movie version ended, along with an epilogue that reveals that Mustafa Mond's social experiment involving John the Savage was a failure and telling his secretary to get rid of everything involving it[[/note]], wishing he'd given John Savage a [[TakeAThirdOption third choice]] between the barbaric world he'd escaped from and the decadent world he'd become disillusioned by[[note]]it should be noted that the 1998 US TV movie version is more-or-less a BittersweetEnding. While John dies after the paparazzi force him to fall off a cliff, Bernard and Lenina leave their society to live on a free island after Lenina tells Bernard that she's pregnant and the unnamed redhead boy who was struggling to get some sleep in the beginning uses some cotton from his pillow to block out the hypnotherapy, meaning that, while John the Savage died, he didn't die in vain, as Lenina and Bernard are now free to act like loving, caring human beings and that John's personality was an inspiration for a new generation[[/note]].

* CreatorBacklash: While Huxley didn't denounce the work as a whole, he ''did'' regret the DownerEnding, wishing he'd given John Savage a [[TakeAThirdOption third choice]] between the barbaric world he'd escaped from and the decadent world he'd become disillusioned by.

* ScienceMarchesOn: Huxley was ahead of his time in saying that fetal exposure to alcohol is a Bad Thing, but his assumption that it's possible to create a specific level of disability with a specific amount of alcohol is not true. In real life, the results are immensely more variable than Huxley suggests, and much of the difference has to be random chance: it's common for one member of a pair of identical twins born to an alcoholic to be severely disabled and the other to be completely normal. His assumption that women need to go through fake pregnancy if they don't really get pregnant, and that darker-complexioned women need to go through it at an earlier age because they're "born to have babies young", is an unfortunate remnant of early 20th century racial and sexual theories that portrayed women in general as constantly subject to MyBiologicalClockIsTicking and darker people as more "primitive" on a biological level.

* BannedInChina: Due to its sexual content and other controversial themes, it was banned in numerous countries for many years.

* FakeBrit: In the series, three New Londoners are played by foreign actors putting on an English accent. Frannie (Canadian Creator/Kylie Bunbury) Henry (Australian Sen Mitsuji) and Jane (New Zealander Sophie [=McIntosh=]).

* BannedInChina: Due to its sexual content and other controversial themes, it was banned in numerous countries for many years.