Huxley's Brave New World

11/06/2025 28 min

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Unpack Huxley's Brave New World: a chilling look at engineered "happiness," societal control, and the cost of freedom. Essential for understanding dystopia and its warnings for our future.Works CitedBedford, Sybille. Aldous Huxley: A Biography. Ivan R. Dee, 2002.Bhagavan, B. S. S. "Loss Of Individuality And Dehumanization: A Critical Analysis Of Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World"." Elementary Education Online, vol. 19, no. 4, 2020, pp. 8562-8571.Caplan, Arthur L., and Glenn McGee. "What is immoral about eugenics?" BMJ: British Medical Journal, vol. 319, no. 7220, 13 Nov. 1999, p. 1284. doi:10.1136/bmj.319.7220.1284.Charette, Lee Quellen. Aldous Huxley : a study in a changing philosophy. 1940. University of the Pacific, Thesis. Scholarly Commons, scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/997.Gabel, Aja. "Aldous Huxley in VQR: The Philosopher as Social Critic." Virginia Quarterly Review, 12 Aug. 2009.Hamamra, Bilal Tawfiq. "A Foucauldian Reading of Huxley's Brave New World". Theory and Practice in Language Studies, vol. 5, no. 1, Jan. 2015, pp. 14-18.Hossain, Shahin. "Aldous Huxley's Brave New World: A Cautionary Tale of Totalitarian Ideology." Minnesota English Journal, vol. 54, no. 1, 2021, pp. 64-73.Huxley, Aldous. Brave New World. Vintage Classics, 2007.---. Brave New World Revisited. Vintage Classics, 2004.---. Collected Essays. Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc., 1959.Miller, Derek D. "Brave New World and the Threat of Technological Growth." Inquiries Journal/Student Pulse, vol. 3, no. 04, 2011. www.inquiriesjournal.com/a?id=509.National Human Genome Research Institute. "Eugenics: Its Origin and Development (1883 - Present)." genome.gov, 30 Nov. 2021. www.genome.gov/about-nhgri/History-of-Genomics/Eugenics.Özenç, Ardeniz. "The Culture Industry and Loss of Individuality in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World." Advances in Social Sciences Research Journal, vol. 9, no. 12, 15 Dec. 2022, pp. 179-191. doi:10.14738/assrj.912.13603.Pakzad. "The colonizer and the colonized: A postcolonial approach to Brave New World." TELL, vol. 4, no. 2, 2010, pp. 142-151.Prekka, Dimitra. "Is Mill's principle of Liberty compatible with his Utilitarianism?" LSE Blogs, London School of Economics, 11 Mar. 2022. blogs.lse.ac.uk/lseih/.Rehman, Ibraheem, et al. "Classical Conditioning." StatPearls [Internet], StatPearls Publishing, 5 Sep. 2024. NCBI Bookshelf, www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK470326/.Saracino, Antonio Domenico. "Humanity Dehumanized: Fordian and Freudian Models in Huxley's Brave New World." Göteborg University, 2011.Schermer, M. H. N. "Brave New World versus Island — Utopian and Dystopian Views on Psychopharmacology." Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy, vol. 10, no. 2, May 2007, pp. 119–128. doi:10.1007/s11019-007-9059-1.Temoukale, Mabandine Djagri. "Eugenics in Brave New World: A New Historicist Reading." International Journal of English Literature and Social Sciences, vol. 7, no. 5, Sep-Oct 2022, pp. 256-261.