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BRAVE NEW
WORLDAldous Huxley
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BIOGRAPHY
Aldous Leonard Huxley was born on July 6, 1894, in Godalming in
Surrey, England.
Huxley began writing professionally in 1920 for various
magazines, and published his first novel, Crome Yellow, in 1920
at the age of twenty-six. Late in life Huxley received many honors, including an award from
the American Academy of Letters in 1959 and election as a
Companion of Literature of the British Royal Society of Literature
in 1962.
Aldous Huxley died of cancer of the tongue on November 22,1963, the same day as John F. Kennedy and C. S. Lewis
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WORKS BY ALDOUS HUXLEY
Crome Yellow, 1921
Antic Hay, 1923
Point Counter Point , 1928
The World of Light, 1931.
Brave New World, 1932 Heaven and Hell, 1956
Brave New World Revisited , 1958
During World War II Huxley worked as a scenarist in Hollywood,writing the screenplays for such notable films as Pride and
Prejudice (1941) and Jane Eyre (1944).
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HUXLEY S PURPOSE IN WRITING THE
NOVEL BRAVE NEW WORLD
Technology could iron humans into a kind ofuniformity, if you were able to manipulate their geneticbackground ...if you had a government unscrupulousenough you could do these things without any doubt ...We are getting more and more into a position wherethese things can be achieved. And its extremelyimportant to realize this, and to take every possibleprecaution to see they shall not be achieved. This, Itake it, was the message of the bookThis is possible:for heavens sake be careful about it.
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TITLE
Brave New World's ironic title derivesfrom Miranda's speech in WilliamShakespeare's The Tempest, Act V, Scene I:
O wonder!How many goodly creatures are there here!How beauteous mankind is! O brave new
world,
That has such people in't.William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act V,Scene I.
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SETTING
The action of the novel is set in
London, England and a place named Savage
Reservation in 632 A.F (A.F. stands for After
Ford, the number of years after he started theassembly line).
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CHARACTERS
RELATION
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Bernard Marx ( an
Alpha-Plus
psychologist, who
brings John the Savage
and Linda back from
the SavageReservation)
Mustapha Mond
(one of ten World
Controllers)
Helmholtz Watson
( Bernard s friend)
John the Savage ( the son
born of parents from the
brave new world, but raised
in the Savage Reservation)
The D.H.C. (The Director of
Hatcheries and Conditioningfor Central London)
Linda( Johnsmother)
ABANDONS
Lenina Crown
(a conventional young
woman who is drawn
unconsciously towards
danger)
Fanny Crowne
( Leninas friend)
ADVISE
S
Henry Foster
(He serves as a counterpoint
to Bernard Marxwhere
Bernard is anti-social,
eccentric, and individual,
Henry is the modelconditioned citizen.)
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Every one works for every one else. We cant do without any
one. Even Epsilons are useful. We couldnt do without Epsilons.
Every one works for every one else. We cant do without any one.
. . .
A gramme is always better than a damn . . . A gramme in timesaves nine . . . One cubic centimetre cures ten gloomy sentiments
. . . Everybodys happy nowadays . . . Every one works for every
one else . . . When the individual feels, the community reels . . .
Never put off till to-morrow the fun you can have to-day . . .
Progress is lovely
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UTOPIA/ DYSTOPIA
Definitions:
UTOPIA: -literally it means and describes an imaginary world.
DYSTOPIA: -an imaginary place or state inwhich the condition of life is extremely bad, as
from deprivation, oppression, or terror.
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DISTOPYA
Brave New World predicts a future where
people dont have serious relationships, where
they dont have opinions and are classified
from birth into a caste;People sleep carelessly with many different
partners;
People are filed into five castes: Alpha, Beta,
Gamma, Delta, or Epsilon.
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FUTURISTIC SOCIETY
Huxley describes a futuristic society that has an alarming
effect of dehumanization (the individual is sacrificed for
the state, science is used to control and subjugate,
and all forms of art and history are outlawed).This
occurs through the absence of spirituality and family,the obsession with physical pleasure, and the misuse
of technology.
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Bibliography:
Aldous Huxleys Brave New World- Intoduction by Harold Bloom
Blooms Modern Critical Views: Aldous HuxleyNew Edition 2010
by Infobase Publishing