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- Brave refreshing World - By Aldous Huxley Author Aldous Huxley was born(p) in 1894, and died in 1963. He first went to Eton, andthen to Oxford. He was a brilliant man, and became a succesful writer of short stories inthe twenties and thirties. He also wrote essays and novels, like Brave New World. Thefirst novels he wrote were comments on the satisfyingization generation, with no goal whatsoever,that lived after WW I. Before he became the writer as we know him, he worked as ajournalist and a tyro of drama. In his checks, especially the later ones, he some timepresents himself as a teacher or a philosopher, to literate us as readers. beside to novels,essays and short stories he also wrote poems, biographies, plays, political/sci-fi books,travel books and even a record of his experiments with drugs. Brave New World wasfirst published in 1932, and has been reprinted many times after that.Main Characters Bernard Marx Lenina Crowne John angry (Son of Tomakin, Bernardsboss) Helm holtz WatsonHuxley tries to make a controversy with this book, he tries to make something clear to thereader. To do this he uses characters, but theyre insignificant to what his real intentionsare, he merely uses them to express his ideas, therefor their characteristics and ideas arenot important in the whole picture. There is hardly any charaterisation in the book toillustrate the individuals.Theme In the foreword Huxley states "The theme of Brave New World is not theadvancement of scientific discipline as such it is the advancement of science as it affects humanindividuals." The picture of the world given in the book describes the condition of thehuman individual in a western elegance in a near future. The society has turned into awell oil machine, in which everything is controlled, even the future profession of theindividual is determined to begin with accept. Its a society in which the human being only servesa sociological and scientifical purpose, the individual t hought is overruled by one bigtotalistic state, likewise emotion and initiative are ruled out. Giving birth is forbidden,sex is the most normal thing on earth, and even drugs is interpreted with the routine andamount of normal meals. Only a small concourse of the real man exists, be its far outside thecivilized world. John Savage is one of them, representitive of individual freedom andthought, torn between two societies. Huxley warns for material and technicaldependence, that will eventually bring destruction upon mankind. Characteristics Thestory is furbish up in our world, in the future (some 600 years from now).