Responding to Aldous Huxley's 1946 Foreword to Brave New World

Responding to Brave New World

Open Response

How did Huxley respond to rereading his own work fifteen years later?

Write a page addressing the following writing prompt:

In 1931 Aldous Huxley wrote Brave New World. Then, in 1946 he wrote a “Foreword” addressing the limitations and successes of the book he had written fifteen years before. How did Huxley’s ideas change between writing the novel in 1931 and writing the foreword in 1946? How did other ideas stay the same or grow stronger? Refer to specific details from the passage. Quotations and specificity are a must.

Retraction

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Allegory of the Cave

Plato's Allegory of the Cave

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Brave New World: "Savage Reservation" Malpais, New Mexico

Consider the World State and the Savage Reservation from the following points of view:
Bernard, Lenina, John, Linda, Pope, and an American Indian woman.
What would each say about how people should and shouldn't live? What experiences, observations, and cultural norms would each refer to when answering the question.