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Brave New World
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3. Aldous Huxley born 1894 in Surrey, England
Forced to leave school due to partial blindness for 3 years, unable to complete scientific training
Instead went to Oxford where he received a degree in English literature
Experienced in journalism, music and artistic criticism, and book reviews.

4. Received the Award of Merit for Brave New World from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1959
Wrote poems, essays, and historical pieces
Satirical novels were best received; The Island was his last novel
Lived in California at the time of his death in November 1963.

5. Brave New World Dystopian novel Published in England in 1932
Third-person omniscient
Setting: 2540 CE; 632 years “After Ford” (significance: Model T car)
Protagonists: Bernard Marx, Helmholtz Watson, and John
Antagonist: Mustapha Mond

6. Brave New World
Motto of Aldous Huxley's utopian World State: "Community, Identity, Stability"

7. "What man has joined, nature is powerless to put asunder."

8. "Till at last the child's mind is these suggestions, and the sum of the suggestions is the child's mind…. The adult's mind too-all his life long. The mind that judges and desire and decides-made up of these suggestions. But all these suggestions are our suggestions... from the State."

9. "Bottle of mine, it's you I've always wanted
"Bottle of mine, it's you I've always wanted! Bottle of mine, why was I ever decanted? Skies are blue inside of you, The weather's always fine; For There ain't no Bottle in all the world Like that dear little Bottle of mine."

10. When the individual feels, the community reels."

11. "The greater a man's talents, the greater his power to lead astray
"The greater a man's talents, the greater his power to lead astray. It is better that one should suffer than that many should be corrupted. Murder kills only the individual-and, after all, what is an individual?"