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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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No	Topic	Links	curator
1	Artificial Reproduction + Family		Sioux
2	Social System Quotes		Cherokee
3	State philosophy, Ford, Religion, State Motto		Apache
4	Propaganda, Feelies, Literature		Ojibwa
5	The Reservation		Navaho
	Education		Shoshone
	Shakespeare references	The Tempest
	The reservation
	Procreation: the hatchery centre
	Lenina – promiscuity	Forum link
	Onomastic considerations	Onomastics / Quotations
	Social castes	Forum link
	the alpha colony
	Conformism & the Savage cult	Oliver, a human-like chimp rotten
	time warp. transition to utopian statehood
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	State religion - satirical elements	Catholic Mass / CliffNotes / 4freeessays
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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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Brave New World is a dystopian novel by Aldous Huxley, first published in 1932. Set in London in 2349, the novel anticipates developments in reproductive technology, biological engineering, and sleep-learning that combine to change society. more ...

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	"Making Babies" - a PBS Frontline episode which examines the revolution in reproductive medicine
	Recent Articles on Cloning and Stem Cells
	Bioethics.net - from the Center for Bioethics. Tons of articles and opinions.
	Huxley & Cloning, a National Public Radio quick feature. Huxley biographer David Dunnaway, reexamines this classic work 65 years after it was first published. RealAudio 28.8 file. Aug 12, 1997.
	Preventing A Brave New World, by Leon R. Kass.
	Jack Or Jill? The era of consumer-driven eugenics has begun. By Margaret Talbot, The Atlantic Monthly, March 2002.

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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 (S^R) to the utopian society (S^U): 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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Quotation from BNW Revisited: In his China under Communism R. L. Walker describes the methods by which the party leaders are able to fabricate out of ordinary men and women the thousands of selfless fanatics required for spreading the Communist gospel and for enforcing Communist policies. 1

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