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Learn about the dystopian society of Brave New World, where human beings are mass-produced and conditioned for their predestined roles. Explore the themes of technology, social stability, and caste system in the first chapter of Aldous Huxley's novel.
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The novel opens in the Central London Hatching and Conditioning Centre, where the Director of the Hatchery and one of his assistants, Henry Foster, are giving a tour to a group of boys. The boys learn about the Bokanovsky and Podsnap Processes that allow the Hatchery to produce thousands of nearly identical human embryos. During the gestation perio...
Fueled by his strange behavior, Lenina becomes obsessed with John, refusing Henrys invitation to see a feely. She takes soma and visits John at Bernards apartment, where she hopes to seduce him. But John responds to her advances with curses, blows, and lines from Shakespeare. She retreats to the bathroom while he fields a phone call in which he lea...
John and Mond debate the value of the World States policies, John arguing that they dehumanize the residents of the World State and Mond arguing that stability and happiness are more important than humanity. Mond explains that social stability has required the sacrifice of art, science, and religion. John protests that, without these things, human ...
Brave New World is a dystopian novel by English author Aldous Huxley, written in 1931 and published in 1932. Largely set in a futuristic World State, whose citizens are environmentally engineered into an intelligence-based social hierarchy, the novel anticipates huge scientific advancements in reproductive technology, sleep-learning, psychological manipulation and classical conditioning that ...
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- 1932
John rebels against the World State in a dramatic riot after visiting his dying mother and rejecting Lenina's advances. He is arrested and taken to a hospital, where he is drugged and mistreated by the authorities.
Huxley published Brave New World, his most successful novel, in 1932. As war loomed in Europe, Huxley, a pacifist, moved to California, along with his wife, Maria, and their son, Matthew. His attempt to write screenplays failed, but he developed an interest in hallucinogenic drugs that led to a book about his drug experiences, The Doors of ...
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In the Reservation, after watching some unnerving Indian rituals, Bernard and Lenina meet a young, Shakespeare -quoting “savage” named John, and his mother, Linda. Bernard realizes that Linda is the woman who got separated from the Director, and that John is their son. John is overwhelmed by Lenina's beauty and, when Bernard offers to take ...
