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  A Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. Search, Read, Study, Discuss.
Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley, is a grim and disturbing view into a hypothetical future of the human race.
In the novel, Huxley paints a world in which humanity is governed by machines, a world in which reproduction, education, and death are all handled with millisecond accuracy.
Brave New World is undoubtedly a masterpiece, both in a creative sense, and in the sense that it provides a chilling outlook into the mindset of the average American citizen living in the early twentieth century.
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 Brave New World by Aldous Huxley : Monarch Notes
Brave New World is Huxley's warning; it is his attempt to make man realize that since knowledge is power, he who controls and uses knowledge wields the power.
Brave New World is a description of our lives as they could be in the none too distant future, if the present obsessions persist for standardization according to the sciences - eugenics and psychology, as well as economics and mechanics.
In the World State population was controlled as an aid to social stability; in his first essay Huxley warns that overpopulation can lead to economic insecurity and social unrest which, in turn, foster greater government control.
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  Brave New World Summary & Essays - Aldous Huxley
Because Brave New World is a novel of ideas, the characters and plot are secondary, even simplistic.
People all around the world are part of a totalitarian state, free from war, hatred, poverty, disease, and pain.
When the Savage, a man from the uncontrolled area of the world (an Indian reservation in New Mexico) comes to London, he questions the society and ultimately has to choose between conformity and death.
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  Amazon.co.uk: Brave New World: Books: Aldous Huxley   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Brave New World can easily be framed as just another treatise on the eternal battle between individual and society, but Huxley presents the conflict in a deeper way, even beyond Orwell's great novel.
Brave New World is a forewarning of what a society would be like that loses those insights, a society that however, is becoming increasingly recognisable as that of our modern consumerist social democratic nations.
Brave New World was a refreshing and thought-provoking read that will stay with any reader for the rest of their lives because of the ideas it contains.
www.amazon.co.uk /Brave-New-World-Aldous-Huxley/dp/0099458160   (2373 words)

  
  Brave New World - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The planet is united as The World State under a peaceful world government established in the aftermath of an apocalyptic global war in the 21st century; a government which has eliminated war, poverty, crime and unhappiness by creating a homogenous high-tech society across Earth, based on the industrial principles of Henry Ford.
She is a personification of the new society, happy and "pneumatic", conformist in her behaviour, fulfilling her function in society, which seems to be to sleep with as many men as possible but largely incapable of free thought.
Brave New World's London propaganda centre is at Fleet Street, the traditional home of the British press and the pseudo-religious Arch-Community Songster is based at Canterbury where the clerical head of the Church of England sits.
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 Richard; Brave New World   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Brave New World (1932), his most celebrated work, is a bitterly satiric account of an inhumanesociety controlled by technology, in which art and religion have been abolished and human beings reproduce by artificialfertilization.
Brave New World focuses constantly on the question of whether technology requires a sacrifice of human individuality.
In zijn boek Brave New World uit 1932 besteedt Huxley veel aandacht aan klonen.
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 Brave New World - Literature Guide - MSN Encarta
Written in 1931 and published the following year, Aldous Huxley's Brave New World is a dystopianor anti-utopiannovel.
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.
Although he was already a bestselling author, Huxley achieved international acclaim with Brave New World and the novel, which is best appreciated as an ironic commentary on contemporary values, subsequently became a classic.
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 Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Brave New World is a science fiction book dealing with the way things might be in the future.
Bernard, Helmholtz and John are taken to Mustapha Mond, the ruler of this section of the world.
He expects the new world to be wonderful but detests the world for being too shallow.
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 One Tree Hill: Brave New World - TV.com
Brave New World is also the name of an episode of the WB hit family drama 7th Heaven.
Brave New World is also the name of an episode (the series finale) of the show Boy Meets World.
Brave New World is a novel by Aldous Huxley.
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 Amazon.com: Brave New World: Music: Iron Maiden   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Brave New World's signature time changes, guitar harmonies, and urgent vocals render moot any question as to whether it will spawn Maiden classics to rival the likes of "Run to the Hills" and "Number of the Beast." Bruce is back, and all's right on this Brave New World.
"Brave New World" may not have any timeless/classic songs, and some of the tracks may be overly long (see "Dream Of Mirrors"), but this album proved Iron Maiden were still a force to be reckoned with, and this has my vote for being Maiden's best effort since "Powerslave" was released in 1984.
Brave New World is a fine achievement of quintessential heavy metal songwriting; a return to form for one of metal's preeminent bands.
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 Full text and plot summary of Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Full text and plot summary of Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Brave New World is one of the most influential and powerful novels written in the twentieth century.
Huxley imagines a future world where children are processed genetically in bottles rather than conceived 'naturally', and belong to one of five classes according to their intelligence: from perfect "Alphas" down to moronic "Epsilons".
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 Amazon.com: Brave New World: Books: Aldous Huxley   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
BNW takes place on a future Earth where human beings are mass-produced and conditioned for lives in a rigid caste system.
BRAVE NEW WORLD, while incredibly sophisticated considering when it was first published (1932), does not hold up as well in the world of 2000.
BRAVE NEW WORLD has been hailed as a cautionary tale against rigid conformity and science, where the individual now exists to serve the advances of science, not the other way around.
www.amazon.com /Brave-New-World-Aldous-Huxley/dp/0060929871   (2136 words)

  
 Aldous Huxley - Brave New World and other works - Extensive information including online texts, discussion forum, links ...
"Brave New World is one of the most insidious works of literature ever written.
"Brave New World" was originally broadcast as the series premiere, in two parts, on January 27 and February 3rd, 1956.
The main character, who is an "invalid" or natural born, struggles to achieve his dream in a genetically engineered society which sorts and discriminates it's members by their DNA purity.
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 Brave New World — KCRW | 89.9FM
Join Brave New World host TRICIA HALLORAN for a live special, Highway 61 to Zuma, music from the decade between 1965 and 1975, including Dylan, Bowie, Beatles, Stevie Wonder, Neil Young and so much more.
Refrigerator's new album is, as always, charmingly idiosyncratic in tone and lyric content, but warmly welcoming musically, with sophisticated melodies and production.
Mary Timony's always impressive guitar pyrotechnics and trademark wistful vocals are still there, but her new work toys with the legacy of 80's keyboard pop, 70's prog-guitar jams, and 60's folk rock.
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 eBooks - Brave New World by Aldous Huxley - eReader.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
What has happened is closer to Huxley's vision of the future in his astonishing 1931 novel Brave New World -- a world of tomorrow in which capitalist civilization has been reconstituted through the most efficient scientific and psychological engineering, where the people are genetically designed to be passive, consistently useful to the ruling class.
What he sees in the new civilization he naively calls a "brave new world," quoting the Shakespeare (The Tempest) on which he was raised in the wild.
Brave New World retains its power as it continues to indict the idea of progress for the sake of progress -- breathtaking in its precise and gripping imagination, its cauterizing irony and its bold exploration of ideas.
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 Brave New 'World' - Forbes.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
World of Warcraft is heading to the world of film.
Universal and Fox are revising a script for Microsoft's Halo with hopes to release the movie in the summer of 2007, though they may have to push back that date since the movie doesn't even have a director yet.
World of Warcraft players are extremely passionate, even by videogamer standards.
www.forbes.com /digitalentertainment/2006/05/09/world-warcraft-wb-cx_0509variety.html   (698 words)

  
 Amazon.de: Brave New World.: English Books: Aldous Huxley   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
(Even the "Brave" in the title is ironic, since so few people strive to be any kind of courageous in this New World.) What's been created is a world where to be an individual means to ostracize yourself, to reject the instant gratification and quick fixes for what ails you.
If there's a braveness here at all, it's the unwitting willingness to forgo growth- since that often requires setbacks and pain- for the sake of total comfort.
Literaturhistorisch wird "Brave New World" in die Antiutopien eingeordnet, die einen Gegenpol zu der in Huxleys Schaffenszeit aufgekommenen Wissenschaft der Futurologie bildet, in der es hieß, dass alles in Zukunft besser werden würde.
www.amazon.de /Brave-New-World-Aldous-Huxley/dp/0099477467   (1103 words)

  
 Brave New World :: thetyee.ca
Despite this, Suzuki, interviewed recently at the world climate change conference in Montreal, seems unusually chipper about the issue of global warming, citing the number of grassroots movements that have popped up across North America that simply ignore the Bush administration and are taking matters into their own hands.
One view maintains that the world is a shit pile, we don't need to worry about it, since we'll have our reward after death; the other says this is it, right here, right now.
Hey, I've invented a new word to counter Suzuki and Skeptikool's claim that us western world types are suffering from something called, "soul sickness." (This is a blanket insult if I ever heard one, eh) Mine is "iconopathy." I'm submitting it to the people at Websters.
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 Huxley, Aldous: Brave New World   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Huxley wrote Brave New World in 1931, before the advent of the Nazi totalitarian state, the more extreme development of the Soviet state during the 1930's, and the Second World War.
Perhaps because Orwell wrote in 1947 after the cataclysm of the war and in full knowledge of the new totalitarianism, his dystopian vision was grounded in terror and brainwashing.
While in both societies people were simply clogs of the state, in Brave New World the state provided continual pleasure as a substitute for freedom.
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 Brave New First-World Order
The forces of the late twentieth century have required double entry bookkeeping: new wealth in profusion for the bright, the bold, the educated and the politically favored; economic carnage among the less fortunate.
At the heart of this "new" order is a troubling paradox: Poor people within the United States, and the country as a whole, are getting poorer at the same time as the rich within the United States are getting richer.
The most disturbing parallel between the United States and the Third World is that massive wealth transfers from the third world poor to the first-world rich have a domestic counterpart.
www.thirdworldtraveler.com /New_World_Order/First_World_Order_BNWO.html   (2383 words)

  
 Brave New World - Wikiquote
Brave New World (1932) a Novel by Aldous Huxley
'O brave new world' is a line in The Tempest by William Shakespeare.
One of the principal function of a friend is to suffer (in a milder and symbolic form) the punishments that we should like, but are unable to inflict upon our enemies.
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 Brave New World
Under normal circumstances, an erroneous understanding of the Brave New World Faith and its Teachings would be regarded as a personal spiritual challenge for the individual involved, which would hopefully be met in due course through loving nurturance, deepening and encouragement by the Brave New World Institutions or their representatives.
Not too easy but—a "new security system" is in place—I understand that in future the Custodians have been asked to stagger their afternoon siestas and not all doze at the same time.
This is a weighty tome from old JR (shame he's not from Dallas; quite a hunk but not a patch on the original, although he has a similar reputation in the Apartment Block, especially with Old Man Barnes, who's a sort of distant relative of Cliff and Pam).
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 Human cloning, human genetics and Brave New World
Human cloning, human genetics and Brave New World
Real Video on a Brave New World of cloning, designer babies, GM food and new forms of life
News that is going to change our world
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 Reading Group Guide | BRAVE NEW WORLD by Aldous Huxley
In Brave New World Aldous Huxley conjures up a horrifying, but often comic, vision of a future Utopia in which humans are processed, conditioned, regimented, and drugged into total social conformity.
When Brave New World was first published in 1932, the world was plunged in depression, fascism was on the rise in Western Europe, and Marxism appealed to increasing numbers of intellectuals in Europe and America.
As dehumanizing and oppressive as the brave new world Utopia is, the alternative in the "savage reserve" is in many ways worse - dirty, violent, unhealthy, cruel, uncomfortable.
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 Amazon.ca: Brave New World: Books: Aldous Huxley   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Grade 8 Up-Brave New World by Aldous Huxley is a classic science fiction work that continues to be a significant warning to our society today.
It's difficult to believe that Aldous Huxley penned this book at some point prior to its publication year of 1932, because so many issues raised in Brave New World are hot-button topics today (genetic engineering, sex and relationships, individual versus society and so on).
Brave New World was a good book as many modern aspects were taken into consideration.
www.amazon.ca /Brave-New-World-Aldous-Huxley/dp/0060929871   (1115 words)

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