Brave New World - A Quest of Scepticism

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Brave New World
Huxley: BNW (zip)
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Schöne neue Welt
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VHS 1980 1998

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Satire

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Brave New World
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Written in 1931 and published the following year, Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World is a dystopian—or anti-utopian—novel. In it, the author questions the values of 1931 London, using satire and irony to portray a futuristic world in which many of the contemporary trends in British and American society have been taken to extremes. Though he was already a best-selling author, Huxley achieved international acclaim with this now-classic novel. Because Brave New World is a novel of ideas, the characters and plot are secondary, even simplistic. The novel is best appreciated as an ironic commentary on contemporary values.

The story is set in a London six hundred years in the future. People all around the world are part of a totalitarian state, free from war, hatred, poverty, disease, and pain.  more ....

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Shakespeare references

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The reservation

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Procreation: the hatchery centre

    
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Lenina – promiscuity

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Onomastic considerations

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Social castes

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the alpha colony

    
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time warp. transition to utopian statehood

    
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soma

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State religion - satirical elements

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Examples of extrapolation

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Aldous Huxley – a biography

Aldous Huxley: The Ultimate Revolution

Audio Files: From the Mind of Aldous Huxley  / Biography- somaweb / Social Philosopher & Critic

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Genre Features
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utopian setting: different space/ different time

Motifs (Spark Notes) Symbols (Spark Notes)

Character constellation:

oppressors versus oppressed

Character Analysis (Spark Notes)
basis of utopian scenarios: political , economic, environmental, space, cultural, ideological the representatives of a totalitarian society: tyrant, "Big Brother", functionaries, loyal members of society, conformists victims, non-conformists, rebels, those living at the fringe

the transition from the society we know (SR) to the utopian society (SU):

a) revolution: rebellion, war

b) evolution: peaceful process

Anti-utopian context: (source: brothersjudd.com)

Many of the great dystopic novels of this Century--George Orwell's 1984 (review) and Animal Farm (review), A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess (review), Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 (review), Ayn Rand's Anthem (review)--are still as timely and pertinent today as they were on the day they were written.  Their endurance is a result of the eternal and universal theme that each of them addresses: the fundamental human conflict between the desire for security and the aspiration for freedom.  On the other hand, Margaret Atwood's feminist take on dystopia, while still an interesting and entertaining read, now feels dated and parochial.  It is essentially just an expression of liberal fear of Ronald Reagan in the early 1980's;  its concerns are too limited, temporary and, ultimately, misguided. read more .....

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