1. Brave New World By Aldous Huxley A presentation by Lauren Stealey

3. Born in Surrey, UK

4. Third son of Leonard Huxley, writer/schoolmaster, and Julia Arnold, founder of Prior’s Field School.

5. Grandson of Thomas Henry Huxley, “Darwin’s Bulldog”- famous zoologist

6. His brother and half-brother were also well-known biologists

7. Aldous himself very well-educated

8. In 1911, suffered from illness which left him almost blind for several years. Disqualified him from service in WWI

9. After graduating from Oxford, he was financially indebted to father. Taught French at Eton where Eric Blair (George Orwell) was one of his students

11. In 1937, moved to Hollywood, California to work as screenwriter. Not successful. (Walt Disney rejected his synopsis of Alice in Wonderland because “he could only understand every third word.”)

12. After WWI, Huxley applied for US citizenship, but continuously denied because he refused to take up arms to defend US (on philosophical, rather than religious, objections)

13. On December 24, 1955, took first dose of LSD. Became pioneer of psychedelic drugs

14. In 1956, married Laura Archera after 1st wife died of breast cancer

15. Huxley was diagnosed with laryngeal cancer.

16. Upon his deathbed, requested LSD, wife obliged with 2 separate injections before he died.

18. Huxley wrote Brave New World while living in Italy

19. He was already established as writer and satirist

20. Brave New World was his fifth novel and first dystopian work

21. H.G. Wells had written utopian novel, Men Like Gods, Huxley decided to write parody, “negative utopia”

22. Novel is set in future, but contains issues of 20th century.

23. Industrial Revolution

24. Mass production

25. Russian Revolution of 1917

27. “feelies” were response to talking movies, and sex-hormone chewing gum was parody of chewing gum, a symbol of US at the time

28. In 1999, Modern Library ranked it as 5th on list of 100 best English-language novels of the 20thcentury

30. Used ironically

31. In different languages, title is changed, sometimes to reflect their versions of works:

32. French: The Best of All Worlds

33. German: Beautiful New World

34. Italian: The New World

35. Spanish: A Happy World

37. Most of the population unified under The World State; population limited to 2 billion people

38. Peaceful, stable global society

39. Goods and resources are plentiful

40. Everyone is happy Community, Identity, Stability

42. Children are created in bottles in Hatcheries and Conditioning Centres where they are decanted

43. Each fetus is treated correspondingly to its predetermined social class (Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, Epsilon)

44. The members of the lowest classes are essentially poisoned to stunt growth and development while in bottles.

45. Members of lower classes are created using Bokanovsky process, producing up to 96 identical children at a time.

46. Podsnap’s Technique is also used for lower classes to mature all of the eggs in an ovary simultaneously

47. Member of upper classes are developed naturally and are unique

48. Sex is purely recreational

50. Although no true supernatural religion exists, Ford is worshipped

51. called Our Ford.

52. “Oh, Ford!”

53. the sign of the T

54. The World State’s society is built on the principles of Ford’s assembly line: “mass production, homogeneity, predictability, and consumption of disposable consumer goods”

55. Freud is sometimes said instead of Ford.

56. Thought to be same person by World State citizens

58. Hangover-free

59. Creates “holidays”

60. Used at any sign of stress, discomfort

61. Sprayed at a riot

62. Taken for enjoyment (ice cream soma bar, half-gramme raspberry sundae)

63. Taken during Solidarity Services in the Fordson Community Singery

64. 12 people sit in circle

65. Take soma tablets and pass around strawberry ice-cream soma

67. “Orgy-porgy, Ford and fun,Kiss the girls and make them One. Boys at one with girls at peace; Orgy-porgy gives release.”

69. Could not be used to teach, only memorize

70. “Moral education, which ought never, in any circumstances, to be rational.”

71. “A gramme is always better than a damn.”

72. “A gramme in time saves nine.”

73. “One cubic centimetre cures ten gloomy sentiments.”

74. “Everybody’s happy nowadays.”

75. “Everyone works for every one else.”

76. “When the individual feels, the community reels.”

77. “Never put off till to-morrow the fun you can have to-day.”

78. “Ending is better than mending.”

80. Death isn’t feared: children are conditioned, given treats when visiting hospitals

81. Concept of family doesn’t exist, so no one mourns

82. Bodies are cremated, and 98% of phosphorous is recovered, instead of being wasted

84. LeninaCrowne, an employee, is reprimanded by her friend Fanny Crowne for being in a nearly exclusive relationship.

85. Lenina admits her attraction to the strange Bernard Marx.

86. Lenina accepts Bernard’s invitation to visit a Savage Reservation in New Mexico.

87. There, they meet John and his mother Linda, who is from the World State, and bring them back with them.