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Brave New World is a futuristic novel by Aldous Huxley about a totalitarian state practicing mind control and biological engineering. Although now considered to be a classic, it received universal negative criticism upon release. -
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- Publication: 1932
- Genre: Dystopian Literature
- It is a parody on H.G. Wells' Men Like Gods
- The ironic title comes from a speech in William Shakespeare's The Tempest
- Number 5 on the Modern Library List of Best 20th-Century Novels
- Setting: London, England; 2540 AD
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Plot Synopsis
Brave New World takes place in a state-run utopia where drugs are not only legal, they are encouraged, as is sex for pleasure - not reproduction. The totalitarian government controls all areas of society and provides entertainment and happiness in order to control it's subjects, rather than tyranny or forced compliance. The novel challenges our view of what the future holds and poses the stark question of whether or not we would exchange freedom for happiness. -
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Really, really needs to unpack all my books. I'm lost without them. I have only read Brave New World 15 times. Must re-read. ;)
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via @jana_kaye: RT @RedeemingLaw Believe it or not @rsimswva1 it's a brave new world.
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@jana_kaye Believe it or not: @rsimswva1 It's a brave new world
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Really, really needs to unpack all my books. I'm lost without them. I have only read Brave New World 15 times. Must re-read. ;)
@ScarletteMartin | November 13, 2009 10:35 PM
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Brave New World on Amazon | View All
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ABC News Specials Brave New World: Cloning - Why Not? - $19.95
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Brave New World Revisited (P.S.) - $11.95
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Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited - $16.95
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ABC News Specials Brave New World: The Melding of Man & Machine - $19.95
Robert Krulwich and Danny Hillis discuss the questions of machines in our bodies. Bill Jones teams with digital artists to create 'Ghostcatching', a drum playing robot from MIT, a squad of rocket bearing penguins from Tim Burton and compute...
Amazon -
Brave New World - $14.95
Aldous Huxley's tour de force, Brave New World is a darkly satiric vision of a "utopian" future—where humans are genetically bred and pharmaceutically anesthetized to passively serve a ruling order. A powerful work of speculativ...
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Are we the 'Brave New World' written about by Huxley?: Have you ever had that friend that kept insisting that.. http://bit.ly/3PB5Y3
@EssentialReader | November 13, 2009 11:30 PM -
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via @jana_kaye: RT @RedeemingLaw Believe it or not @rsimswva1 it's a brave new world.
@wvavan | November 13, 2009 11:09 PM -
@jana_kaye Believe it or not: @rsimswva1 It's a brave new world
@RedeemingLaw | November 13, 2009 10:53 PM -
Really, really needs to unpack all my books. I'm lost without them. I have only read Brave New World 15 times. Must re-read. ;)
@ScarletteMartin | November 13, 2009 10:35 PM
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Brave New World on Amazon | View All
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ABC News Specials Brave New World: The Melding of Man & Machine - $19.95
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Amazon -
Brave New World Revisited (P.S.) - $11.95
When the novel Brave New World first appeared in 1932, its shocking analysis of a scientific dictatorship seemed a projection into the remote future. Here, in one of the most important and fascinating books of his career, Aldous Huxl...
Amazon -
ABC News Specials Brave New World: Cloning - Why Not? - $19.95
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Amazon -
Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited - $16.95
The astonishing novel Brave New World, originally published in 1932, presents Aldous Huxley's vision of the future -- of a world utterly transformed. Through the most efficient scientific and psychological engineering, people are gen...
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Brave New World - $14.95
Aldous Huxley's tour de force, Brave New World is a darkly satiric vision of a "utopian" future—where humans are genetically bred and pharmaceutically anesthetized to passively serve a ruling order. A powerful work of speculativ...
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Guide Note:
Brave New World is a futuristic novel by Aldous Huxley about a totalitarian state practicing mind control and biological engineering. Although now considered to be a classic, it received universal negative criticism upon release. -
Fast Facts:
- Publication: 1932
- Genre: Dystopian Literature
- It is a parody on H.G. Wells' Men Like Gods
- The ironic title comes from a speech in William Shakespeare's The Tempest
- Number 5 on the Modern Library List of Best 20th-Century Novels
- Setting: London, England; 2540 AD
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Plot Synopsis
</small> Brave New World takes place in a state-run utopia where drugs are not only legal, they are encouraged, as is sex for pleasure - not reproduction. The totalitarian government controls all areas of society and provides entertainment and happiness in order to control it's subjects, rather than tyranny or forced compliance. The novel challenges our view of what the future holds and poses the stark question of whether or not we would exchange freedom for happiness. </note> -
Brave New World Adaptations
- The majority of the following links are to IMDb, which has pop-ups.
- 1956: Brave New World (Radio Broadcast)
- 1980: Brave New World (TV)
- 1998: Brave New World (TV) | Wikipedia | Review (1998)
- 2003: Brave New World (Play)
