The life of Huxley Born into a wealthy, intellectual family

Was left partially blind after an illness in college… …so he couldn’t become a doctor

Huxley formed a lifelong friendship with D. H Huxley formed a lifelong friendship with D.H. Lawrence, and gained literary prominence with his first novel

1937- Huxley moves to California, writes film scripts, essays, utopian novel Island

Experiments with drugs, writes The Doors of Perception, which gives Jim Morrison a name for his band

Dies of cancer on November 22, 1963

Brave New World Huxley’s 5th novel was published in 1932, after he traveled extensively. Often seen as his response to the American lifestyle and a response to H.G. Well’s utopian Men Like Gods

The World State: Community, Identity, Stability How are these values implemented?....

Children are not born through sex but through genetic engineering in test tubes. Women no longer give birth and are on strict birth control.

The Caste System Fetuses are reared in accordance with a caste system of Alphas, Betas, Gammas, Deltas, and Epsilons. Alphas are conceived individually, while lower castes are created through Bokanovsky’s Process, which splits one egg many times.

Children learn about the world through a hypnopaedic process, meaning that they listen to phrases and principles during sleep, which conditions them to feel and act according to the World State.

‘Everybody belongs to everyone” Sex is rampant; there are no monogamous relationships. The characters regularly engage in “orgy-porgies”

Time is no longer measured according to the life of Christ but according to the life of Henry Ford; it is currently 632 AF. Consumption is all-important; nothing is used twice and everything is made on the assembly line Why do you think Ford is considered a deity in The World State?

Soma: “Everybody’s Happy Nowadays” To make sure that everyone is in a constant state of contentment, the characters have been conditioned to take the drug soma whenever they might feel unhappy. This drug keeps them in a state of pleasure. - Is there a modern-day equivalent of soma? What could be its downsides?