Brave+New+World

"Community, Identity, Stability" -This quote means you are not one person, you are all the exact same. There's no trying to succeed, people just accept you and your problems. They don't try to help you out. Being content is all that matters, neither being completely happy nor being extremely depressed is accepted. Children are created to do something in the community. The community is there for a purpose, everyone is supposed to do something to better it.

"Every one works for every one else. We can’t do without any one. Even Epsilons are useful. We couldn’t do without Epsilons. Every one works for every one else. We can’t do without any one. . ." - Lenina remembers waking up as a small girl and had heard hypnopaedic messages whispered into her ear. Shes reminded that Henry Foster told her that after death everyone is equal. This quote means that everyone is here for everyone else. Nobody is on their own, we all have each other. If one of us isn't here, the rest of us can't be here either.

"Ford, we are twelve; oh, make us one, Like drops within the Social River; Oh, make us now together run As swiftly as thy shining Flivver..." -This is a song that was sang during the Solidarity Service attended by Bernard. It talks about how you the society can make its people better and reform the society. The last line in the song tells us that we cannot destroy the human race completely. There is still need to experience emotions that haven't yet been experienced.

Critic Reviews "As critic and best-selling author Neil Postman points out so well in the introduction to his book "Amusing Ourselves To Death", we have congratulated ourselves prematurely by figuring we made it past the totalitarian nightmare state depicted in George Orwell's gripping cautionary tale "1984". Perhaps, Postman suggest, we should remember another visionary totalitarian nightmare scenario and use it to critically examine the contemporary state of social and psychological well-being. Of course he was referring to Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World, written before Orwell's by 15 or so years, and even more frightening in its own way in the world it describes. More and more, that frightening vision looks like our contemporary world."

"Grade 8 Up-Brave New World by Aldous Huxley is a classic science fiction work that continues to be a significant warning to our society today. Tony Britton, the reader, does an excellent job of portraying clinical detachment as the true nature of the human incubators is revealed. The tone lightens during the vacation to the wilderness and the contrast is even more striking. Each character is given a separate personality by Britton's voices. As the story moves from clinical detachment to the human interest of Bernard, the nonconformist, and John, the "Savage," listeners are drawn more deeply into the plot. Finally, the reasoned tones of the Controller explain away all of John's arguments against the civilization, leading to John's death as he cannot reconcile his beliefs to theirs.The abridgement is very well done, and the overall message of the novel is clearly presented. The advanced vocabulary and complex themes lend themselves to class discussion and further research. There is sure to be demand for this classic in schools and public libraries."