SparkNotes: Brave New World: Suggestions for Further Reading.
De Koster, Katie, ed. Readings on Brave New World. San Diego, CA: Greenhaven Press, 1999. This is a guide to reading and understanding Brave New World. It includes critical essays about the novel, a bibliography with primary and secondary resources on Brave New World, and a timeline of Aldous Huxley's life. Deery, June.While Brave New World was a fantastic book, one may not fully appreciate the amount of detail that had gone into it before reading Brave New World Revisited, an explanation from Aldous Huxley on what each part of the original novel had meant and to what purpose each detail served. Brave New World Revisited is practically a how-to manual on.Aldous Huxley describes Brave New World as a “nightmare” world of genetic engineering, brainwashing, drugs and recreational sex. The New World State is a perfect society gone awry: a society to be feared by the contemporary audience with the intention to warn about expectant future developments.
Following Brave New World is the nonfiction work Brave New World Revisited, first published in 1958. It is a fascinating work in which Huxley uses his tremendous knowledge of human relations to compare the modern-day world with the prophetic fantasy envisioned in Brave New World, including threats to humanity, such as overpopulation, propaganda, and chemical persuasion.This volume of criticism presents a variety of new essays on Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, a classic in the science fiction and dystopian genres. These essays delve into the cultural, historical, comparative and critical contexts for understanding Brave New World. For readers who are studying it for the first time, several essays survey the.
Brave New World, a science-fiction novel by Aldous Huxley, published in 1932. It depicts a technologically advanced futuristic society. John the Savage, a boy raised outside that society, is brought to the World State utopia and soon realizes the flaws in its system. He rebels but fails, driven to suicide.
