Brave New World Summary
Aldous Huxley

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley Aldous Huxley was born in 1894 into one of England's most distinguished intellectual families. His grandfather, Thomas Henry Huxley, was a brilliant biologist nickn... Read more

Novelist and essayist Aldous Huxley has been described by New Statesman contributor V. S. Pritchett as "that rare being--the prodigy, the educable young man, the perennial asker of unusual questions."... Read more

It has often been argued that even in his fiction Aldous Leonard Huxley never ceased to be the essayist. To the extent that, from Crome Yellow (1921) onward, he shared Thomas Love Peacock's interest i... Read more

Aldous Huxley earned widespread attention in the 1920s as a promising young fiction writer who wrote brilliant and scathing stories about British writers and intellectuals gathered around socialite Ot... Read more

"There's no such thing as a divided allegiance; you're so conditioned that you can't help doing what you ought to do." (Huxley 217) Conditioning in Brave New World was something that nobody could avo... Read more

Freedom. Liberty. Lack of restrictions. Aldous Huxley's work Brave New World places people under what our society's standards would regard as very restrictive. Genetically engineering people in factor... Read more

Control is one of the major building blocks of both government and society. There are numerous techniques by which a government can gain and maintain control. In the novels, A Brave New World by Aldos... Read more

`Brave New World', a satirical novel by Aldous Huxley, and `Blade Runner', a post-modern film by Ridley Scott, are two dystopian, science-fiction texts which address the tension between humanity and ... Read more

The nature of the `world state' in Huxley's Brave New World is one characterised by control, regardless of whether it is social, economic, educational or political, although political control is allow... Read more

The works Brave New World and Pleasantville were created over fifty years apart.  One is about a world over five hundred years in the future. Whereas the other is about a world in the 1900s. &nbs... Read more

This preceding quotation serves as form to the major differences between the English based "modern civilization," in addition to the reservation in New Mexico, and divulges the imposing conflict that ... Read more

Have you ever wished things would be just perfect? I, for certain, know I have. Yet, if you really stop to think about it, perfection isn't attainable because we always want something bigger and bett... Read more

After reading Brave New World and 1984, I come across that these two book are very similar in many ways. Even each Utopian society takes pace differently from each other there are more similarities in... Read more

Everyone wants happiness. Everyone wishes for happiness. But how far people would go to get joy is a different story. In a Brave New World, happiness is taken to a whole new level. People no longer fi... Read more

In Huxley's, "Brave New World" the author relies on the concept of "eugenics," which is the study of human reproduction to enhance the health of future generations. Those efforts being per se positi... Read more

Both texts explore the degradation of human nature, where man is a commodity and human worth is measured quantitatively. In these worlds consumerism is a religion, man emulates god and all moral respo... Read more

John claims: "I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin." - these are the essence of humanity which Huxley presents in his 1932 futuristic fiction, Bra... Read more

"The parents were the the father and the mother," The smut that was really science fell with a crash into the boys eye-avoiding silence. "Mother," he repeated loudly rubbing in the science. "Moth... Read more

Although conforming to society perpetuates order and being different allows us to act as individuals within a society. In Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, the main idea was having a utopian s... Read more

Aldous Huxley's purpose for writing Brave New World was to warn the world about science and its wrongful uses. Huxley wrote the novel in 1932 when the world was changing politically and industrially a... Read more

A Brave New World may seem to be a very outlandish view on the future of our world, but it has recently become a much closer representation of how society could become if the current trends continue.... Read more

Everyone wants happiness. Everyone wishes for happiness. But how far people would go to get joy is a different story. In Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, people no longer find happiness on their own... Read more

What is life? In the novel A Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley, the concept of life is far from anything we could ever imagine. A Brave New World takes place in the year 632 A.F., which means After... Read more

I believe that there are many instances in our civilization and in the civilization of the Brave New World where truth is a threat to happiness. Of course it is easily arguable that truth can bring h... Read more

Huxley has used many techniques in Brave New World to highlight the issue of degradation of the relationship that exists between humanity and nature. It has broadened my own personal understanding of ... Read more

Close your eyes and imagine a world free of war, suffering and pain; an environment that provides all the necessary luxuries to maintain eternal happiness; one that is stable, friendly, peacefu... Read more

Brave New World Historical information about the period of publication as it applies to the work: In his book, Brave New World, Huxley anticipated such things as totalitarian governments and the... Read more

Could you envision our world with man made human beings that are deprived of their love for each other, disposed of their child bearing natues, and where 'whoring' around is enforced rather than revok... Read more

Individualism is the idea that freedom of thought and action for each person is the most important quality of a society, rather than shared effort and responsibility and it is vital to everyone. In Wo... Read more

In my exploration of the texts "Brave New World," composed by Aldous Huxley in 1931, and "Blade Runner - The Director's Cut," by Ridley Scott, I have acknowledged the opinion and perspective of both c... Read more

Human relationships, and humanity's understanding of the wild, are shaped and reflected in Blade Runner, by Ridley Scott, and in Brave New World (Aldous Huxley) through their composers' use of the con... Read more

Although society is comprised of individuals and their unique talents are often recognized and praised, conformity is becoming increasingly accepted and valued. People are consistently moving closer a... Read more

Aldous Huxley's Brave New World and Ridley Scott's Blade Runner Director's Cut share many ideas about humanity's relationship with the natural world, and are closely connected by the values they conv... Read more

Aldous Huxley, in Brave New World, illustrates the problems when the government has too much control of citizens' social lives. "Normal" birth becomes a thing of the past because each and every pers... Read more

John has never fit in wherever he has lived, especially in the Brave New World. John was raised on an Indian reservation, therefore he thinks differently than those who have been raised in the Bra... Read more

In Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, Mustapha Mond, one of ten World Controllers, suggests that the price of universal happiness will be the sacrifice of the most sacred truth of the culture that ou... Read more

Human relationships, and humanity's understanding of the wild, are shaped and reflected in Blade Runner, by Ridley Scott, and in Brave New World (Aldous Huxley) through their composers' use of the con... Read more

"Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely." The famous quote by Lord Acton can be seen in Orwell's Brave New World and Huxley's 1984. The novels warn of the power that can be abused by a... Read more

The concept of totalitarianism is indoctrination, into all levels of society, which seek to reshape society's values and attitudes by suppressing their emotions and natural functions. Evidently, in ... Read more

The Creation of a Dystopia In order to discuss Brave New World as a piece of dystopian literature, it is necessary to define both a utopia and a dystopia. A utopia is considered to be an ideally per... Read more

Brave New World and Blade Runner are two science fictional texts that project a dystopia where humanity is far removed from the natural world. Where humanity characterised by ethics, morals, spiritua... Read more

Utopia represents the perfect society. The literal meaning of utopia is "nowhere", so, the idea is essentially ironic in that it can never be achieved. For the utopian society to work, individualit... Read more

Both of the texts, Brave New World by Adlous Huxley, and Blade Runner by Harrison Ford explore the tensions between humanity and the natural world. The quote: "I want god, I want poetry, I want real ... Read more

Through-out the novel, Brave New World, one of the most valued things besides the frequently used drug called soma, is religion and worship. This speculative fiction, written by Aldous Huxley, deal... Read more

Visions of the Future By: Feren Johnson Throughout time, several authors have written about the future. For many, fiction has been a vehicle to express hopes and fears about the evolution of socie... Read more

Brave New World Brave New World is set in the future time period in England. With the help of advanced technologies,and drugs, happiness fills the lives of the people living at tha... Read more

The world was in utter shambles when Aldous Huxley wrote Brave New World. It was the middle of the depression, unemployment was high and the stock market low. It was the age of sterilizing the ment... Read more

The world as we know it is not all that is in existence. God made us with a yearning to know more, to understand what's out there. When we are stuck within the confines of our lives, there are always ... Read more

Huxley and Shakespeare Do they read Shakespeare? asked the Savage as they walked, on their way to the Bio-chemical Laboratories, past the School Library. Certainly not, said the Head Mistress, blushi... Read more

Published almost eighty years ago, Brave New World by Aldous Huxley remains a classic anti-utopian novel. A futuristic ideal world is portrayed one where human values are eliminated. The characters i... Read more

Huxley's Brave New World was written in the aftermath of the Great Depression and before the advent of the Nazi's totalitarian state, when the rise of Communism gave people a false sense of security b... Read more

Limitations and restrictions on behavior patterns in society can often bind one's ability to be truly happy in all aspects of the word. Aldous Huxley creates a world in his book Brave New World, where... Read more

An imprisonment life In Brave New World the author Aldous Huxley describes a world of complete government control. In Brave New World the people that live in the World State are not ruled by instinc... Read more

Ridley Scott's film "Blade Runner: Director's Cut" and Aldous Huxley's novel "Brave New World" explore the concept of `In The Wild' by focusing on the natural world and its rhythms falling victim to u... Read more