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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