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* [[Sarcastic Title]]
* [[Science Is Bad]]: Well, a threat to social stability if not kept in check.
* [[Screw the Rules, I Make Them]]:
* [[Send in the Clones]]: Humanity is mass produced in batches of "identical twins" on the order of hundreds at a time.
* [[Sexophone]]: The briefly mentioned sexophones are either renamed saxophones or some odd new instrument. Sex is so
* [[Shallow Love Interest]]: Lenina, intentionally.
* [[Shout-Out/To Shakespeare]]: The title comes from ''[[The Tempest]]'', and since one of John's first books was an anthology from the Bard, he's prone to quoting him.
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* [[Talking the Monster to Death]]: The book's climax consists of a dialogue between John the Savage and Mustapha Mond.
* [[Theme Naming]]: All the characters except John the Savage are named after renowned capitalists, communists, industrialists, psychologists, philosophers or scientists.
** John's
* [[Title Drop]]: The verse that the book's title comes from is said by John repeatedly.
* [[Totalitarian Utilitarian]]: The story takes place in a society where [[For Happiness]] have become such a great cultural obsession that it has become oppressive.
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