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Mr. Geib's webpage for Aldous Huxley's prophetic vision of the future, "Brave New World." |
"No civilization
without stability. No social stability without individual stability."
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"You’ve got to choose between happiness and
what people used to call high art. We’ve sacrificed the high art."
Mustapha Mond
"But I don’t want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real
danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin."
John the Savage
"COMMUNITY,
IDENTITY, AND STABILITY"
TASKS:
Author Info: First, go read up about Aldous Huxley. Lots to explore about Aldous Huxley at Britannica.
Background and Context: Check out in more detail The Propaganda Page, Advertising Techniques, Should We Be Cloning Around?, Prozac Dangers, Classical Conditioning, s and The Life of Henry Ford.
Into the Deep End of the Pool: The best place to start is Soma Web and Huxley.net; those two excellent and extensive sites contain many excellent links that will help a student to understand BNW at a profound level.
Inspiration: Click here to download Plot Cycle file. Download "Community, Identity, and Stability," Lenina vs. John the Savage, and the Us vs. Them files.
Vocabulary: Check it out!
Final Essay: Do your best!
Culminating
Project: Mustapha
Mond's Department of Propaganda.
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Last updated on June 20, 2002. |