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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.

§ 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.

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

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

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

"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. "

"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. "

When the individual feels, the community reels. "

"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? "