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Brave New World

Brave New World. ideas. Huxley is against the idea that economic stability should be obtained at all costs. Aldous opposes a concept where financial security is placed above all else. He does not agree with the belief that happiness and control can only be achieved through consumerism

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Brave New World

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  1. Brave New World ideas

  2. Huxley is against the idea that economic stability should be obtained at all costs. • Aldous opposes a concept where financial security is placed above all else. • He does not agree with the belief that happiness and control can only be achieved through consumerism • Aldous dislikes the concept of a world that revolves around business and consumerism • Huxley believes that a world built around consumerism comes with too hefty a price-tag. • In Huxley’s eyes, social stability is not worth losing truth and beauty in society. • Showing how messy things can get when life revolves around consumerism and finance is Huxley’s way of portraying that he is against this idea.

  3. Next steps... Mr Edgecombe will give you a series of quotes. Each quote links to an aspect of life that the novel talks about. For each slide, pick out two quotes. Explain how each quote proves the idea that there are greater goals than stability. Some words to help you with your explaining... By... Huxley... Through the use of... Because... Consequently... Therefore... Hence...

  4. Sex • ‘...we went to bed together yesterday, like infants, instead of being adults and waiting.’ [Bernard] ‘But it was fun’ [Lenina] • The purpose of life • Mond is worried people will discover‘...that the purpose of life was not the maintenance of well-being, but some intensification and refining of consciousness, some enlargement of knowledge. 154-5 • Drugs • ‘the infinitely friendly world of soma-holiday’ (Lenina & Henry on drugs) • ‘One cubic centimetre cures ten gloomy sentiments.’ • Death • Pg 181 John mourning ‘...as though death were something terrible, as though anyone mattered as much as all that! • Commerce • “Our Ford himself did a great deal to shift the emphasis from truth and beauty to comfort and happiness. Mass production demanded the shift. Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning; truth and beauty can’t.’ Mond pg 200-1

  5. Education • Director talks about education ‘For of course, some sort of general idea they must have, though as little of one, if they are to be good and happy members of society, as possible.’ (2) • Literature • ‘You’ve got to choose between happiness and what people used to call high art.’ (Mond) • ‘...it is idiotic. Writing when there’s nothing to say...’ Helmholtz (194) • Free thought (Hypnopaedia/ sleep conditioning) • ‘A gram’s better than a damn.’ • ‘A gram in time saves nine.’ • ‘More stitches less riches.’ • ‘Ending is better than mending.’ • Relationships/ Family • On marriage, linda says ‘It does seem a lot of fuss to make about so little.’

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