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    Summary and Analysis of Brave New World: Based on the Book by Aldous Huxley
    Summary and Analysis of Brave New World: Based on the Book by Aldous Huxley
    Summary and Analysis of Brave New World: Based on the Book by Aldous Huxley
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    Summary and Analysis of Brave New World: Based on the Book by Aldous Huxley

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    So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of Brave New World tells you what you need to know—before or after you read Aldous Huxley’s book.
     
    Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for quality and give you the tools you need to be a well-informed reader.
     
    This short summary and analysis of Brave New World includes:
    • Historical context
    • Chapter-by-chapter overviews
    • Profiles of the main characters
    • Themes and symbols
    • Important quotes
    • Fascinating trivia
    • Glossary of terms
    • Supporting material to enhance your understanding of the original work
    About Brave New World by Aldous Huxley:
     
    Aldous Huxley’s visionary Brave New World is one of the world’s greatest dystopian novels. In a society built on conformity, stability, and pervasive “happiness,” individuals are not born, but manufactured into one of five distinct castes—from dull-witted laborers to leaders and thinkers. Even as embryos, people are conditioned and programmed not only to accept, but to enjoy their predestined lives—or is it their slavery?
     
    But what happens when a savage—a man born from an actual mother—is introduced into this perfectly ordered society?
     
    Brave New World is a masterpiece of literary satire, as appropriate today, in our world of endless, shallow distractions and ubiquitous mass media, as it was when it was first published in 1932.
     
    The summary and analysis in this ebook are intended to complement your reading experience and bring you closer to a great work of fiction.
     
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateMar 21, 2017
    ISBN9781504044790
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      Summary and Analysis of Brave New World - Worth Books

      Contents

      Context

      Overview

      Cast of Characters

      Summary

      Character Analysis

      Themes and Symbols

      Author’s Style

      Direct Quotes

      Trivia

      What’s That Word?

      Critical Response

      About Aldous Huxley

      For Your Information

      Bibliography

      Copyright

      Context

      First published in 1932, Brave New World was widely panned by critics at the time. Its vision of dystopian London was perhaps too far ahead of its time, or perhaps its subject matter was overshadowed by the worldwide depression and the rise of fascism in Germany. However, the book increasingly resonated with readers, and is now taught as one of literature’s great novels in schools and universities across the Western world. It is also one of the world’s most banned books because of the its depiction of sexual promiscuity and drug use as a tool for maintaining societal happiness, and for the false perception of its being both anti-family and anti-religion. It ranks today among the great dystopian novels, frequently compared with George Orwell’s 1984. It appears on Modern Library’s list of the 100 Best English Language Novels of the 20th Century and the British newspaper The Observer’s list of 100 Greatest Novels of All Time.

      By the time of Brave New World’s publication, Aldous Huxley was already well-known as an essayist, intellectual, and satirist. This novel helped him refine his ideas and present them to readers. Contemporaneous readers familiar with his larger body of work found much familiar in Huxley’s critique of the machine age, socialism, and consumerism, which led a reviewer for the British journal New Statesman and Nation to write: There are brilliant, sardonic little splinters of hate aimed at the degradation he has foreseen for our world; there are passages in which he elaborates conjectures and opinions already familiar to readers of his essays…. There are no surprises in it; and if he had no surprises to give us, why should Mr. Huxley have bothered to turn this essay in indignation into a novel? He goes on to call the novel inert as a work of art. Nothing can bring it alive. Nevertheless, Brave New World has been adapted into two feature films, a stage play, and three radio adaptations for CBS and the BBC.

      After World War II, Huxley went back to add a foreword to the novel, wherein he discusses how he might write the story differently in the aftermath of the world’s first use of atomic weapons. In 1958, he published a nonfiction follow-up, Brave New World Revisited, in which he considered whether his dystopian vision was becoming less likely or more likely. His conclusion was that the Brave New World is closer than we think, and coming much faster than he originally thought, due to overpopulation and efforts to control it, the arrival of powerful new drugs, and research into subliminal suggestion.

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      Aldous Huxley’s dystopian novel

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