1984 Vs. Brave New World

ALDOUS HUXLEY'S

BRAVE NEW WORLD

by Anthony Astrachan

SERIES EDITOR

Michael Spring

Editor, Literary Cavalcade

Scholastic Inc.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

We would like to acknowledge the many painstaking hours of work

Holly Hughes and Thomas F. Hirsch have devoted to making the Book

Notes series a success.

(C) Copyright 1984 by Barron's Educational Series, Inc.

Electronically Enhanced Text (C) Copyright 1993, World Library, Inc.

CONTENTS

CONTENTS

SECTION.......................... SEARCH ON

THE AUTHOR AND HIS TIMES................. HBRAAUTH

THE NOVEL

The Plot................................. HBRAPLOT

The Characters........................... HBRACHAR

Other Elements

Setting............................. HBRASETT

Themes.............................. HBRATHEM

Style............................... HBRASTYL

Point of View....................... HBRAVIEW

Form and Structure.................. HBRAFORM

THE STORY................................ HBRASTOR

A STEP BEYOND

Tests and Answers........................ HBRATEST

Term Paper Ideas......................... HBRATERM

Glossary................................. HBRAGLOS

The Critics.............................. HBRACRIT

Advisory Board........................... HBRAADVB

Bibliography............................. HBRABIBL

AUTHOR_AND_HIS_TIMES

THE AUTHOR AND HIS TIMES (HBRAAUTH)

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Aldous Leonard Huxley was born on July 26, 1894, into a family

that included some of the most distinguished members of that part of

the English ruling class made up of the intellectual elite. Aldous'

father was the son of Thomas Henry Huxley, a great biologist who

helped develop the theory of evolution. His mother was the sister of

Mrs. Humphrey Ward, the novelist; the niece of Matthew Arnold, the

poet; and the granddaughter of Thomas Arnold, a famous educator and

the real-life headmaster of Rugby School who became a character in the

novel Tom Brown's Schooldays.

Undoubtedly, Huxley's heritage and upbringing had an effect on his

work. Gerald Heard, a longtime friend, said that Huxley's ancestry

"brought down on him a weight of intellectual authority and a momentum

of moral obligations."