![]() Aldous Huxley’s 1932 science fiction novel, Brave New World, is filled with scientific contextual references from the early twentieth century, and one notable reference – the “Malthusian belt” (Huxley, p.43) – makes a significant acknowledgement to the effort to reduce reproduction in the lower-class, therefore ensuring the desirable traits of the upper-class are carried on, and population levels are managed. ![]() “And round her waste she wore a silver-mounted green morocco-surrogate cartridge belt, bulging (for Lenina was not a freemartin) with the regulation supply of contraceptives” (Huxley, p.43).
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