BOOK EDU

1. Write a short sequel to Brave New World, exploring the life of Helmholtz and Bernard on the Falkland Islands. What kind of world do the banished men find? Is it truly free, or just another kind of conformity? Is one character more adaptable than the other? Create your sequel […]

1. Although they were raised very differently, Bernard Marx and John the Savage are both dissatisfied with the society of the brave new world. What qualities do the characters have in common? How are they different? Compare their strengths and weaknesses. 2. In some ways, Linda and Lenina are the […]

A.F. Huxley’s term, following all the dates in the modern era (“After Ford”). abjection a state of misery and degradation. agaves plants of the agave family, such as the century plant. Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, Epsilon the names of the castes of the dystopia. They are the first five letters […]

Brave New World has been called a “novel of ideas,” because Huxley takes as his primary focus for the fiction the contrast and clash of different assumptions and theories rather than merely the conflict of personalities. In Brave New World Revisited, Huxley dispenses with the fictional construct altogether and lets […]

In the first chapter, the D.H.C. proudly explains the biochemical technology that makes possible the production of virtually identical human beings and, in doing so, introduces Huxley’s theme of individuality under assault. Bokanovsky’s Process, which arrests normal human development while promoting the production of dozens of identical eggs, deliberately deprives […]

At Aldous’ birth, the Huxley family and their relatives already commanded literary and philosophical attention in Victorian England. Huxley’s grandfather, biologist T. H. Huxley, gained recognition in the nineteenth century as the writer who introduced Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution to a wide public and coined the word “agnostic.” The […]

Helmholtz voices the inarticulate feeling of meaningless in the life of brave new world citizens. Helmholtz has something to say, he believes, but he cannot find the words within him. In his struggle to find meaning and expression for his feeling of emptiness, Helmholtz emerges as one of the most […]

Only Mond’s extraordinary power keeps him safe from whispers of his dangerous knowledge and collection of unorthodox books. He is untouchable but not unreachable. With Helmholtz and John, Mond discusses the unspoken assumptions of the society they find so constricting, even confessing his own youthful experiments in challenging authority. Mond […]