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Title: Aldous Huxley


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Aldous Huxley
  • Brave New World Lecture

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To get you thinking . . .
  • What is the most meaningful book you have ever
    read and why?
  • Are we more or less literate as a society than we
    were in the past?
  • Do you think society is smarter than it was in
    the past? Why or why not?
  • Are we becoming too dependent on technology?

3
To get you thinking . . .
  • What are the characteristics of a perfect world?
  • What would we have more of?
  • What would we have less of?

4
To get you thinking . . .
  • Is it possible to achieve this in our time? Why
    or why not?

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Author Information
  • Born July 26, 1894 in Surrey, England
  • Literary and Scientific Tradition
  • Father Thomas Henry Huxley
  • Famous biologist
  • Darwins Bulldog
  • Mother Julia Arnold
  • Related to Matthew Arnold, famous 19th century
    poet and essayist

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Author Information
  • Result of Parents
  • The production of a writer who is uniquely
    informed about science
  • Science-Fiction Writer?
  • Eye Disorder
  • Prevented him from becoming a medical doctor
  • Blindness and Vision become significant literary
    motifs (recurring idea in a literary work)

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Author Information
  • Brave New World published in 1932
  • Satire
  • Fascination with Science
  • Anti-Utopian Society (Dystopia)
  • Similar to Orwells text 1984
  • Have you ever heard of Big Brother?

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Author Information
  • 1940s Turning Point
  • Experimentation with hallucinogenic drugs LSD and
    mescaline
  • Interest in occult phonomena hypnotism,
    seances, and other activities on the border of
    science and mysticism
  • Publishes Doors of Perception
  • Have you ever heard of Jim Morrison?

9
Brave New World
  • Novel of Dystopia
  • Not the perfect world, but the exact opposite

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Essential Questions
  • Chapter 1 Find out the following
  • What is the setting?
  • What is the Bokanovsky Process?
  • What is Podsnaps Technique?
  • What is Social Predestination?
  • What are the various social castes? List them.
  • Write down something interesting or confusing
    from this chapter.
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