Brave New World Aldous Huxley Biography Religion Cloning WWI

1. Brave New World

3.  He was born in 1894 in Surrey,
England, into a family of
brilliant scientists and
educators.
 He went to Elton College in 1908
with the intention to study
medicine, but he suffered an
attack of keratitis punctata and
became for a period of about 18
months totally blind. By using
special glasses and one eye
recovered sufficiently he was
able to read and he also learned
Braille.

4.  Huxley continued his studies at
Balliol College, Oxford
University, where he studied
English Literature.
 During his studies his brother
suicide when he escape from the
hospital he was in by suffering a
deep nervous depresion.
 Another great shock Aldous
suffered was when his mother
(to whom he was very closed)
died of cancer when he was 14
years old.

5.  He start working as a journalist
and then he was able to make a
living from his other writings
and no longer needed to work as
a journalist.
 In 1937 he moved to the United
States in Hollywood where he
hoped that the climate would
improve his eye condition.
 He wrote books, poetry, critical
essays, movie films, and he also
developed interest in
philosophies, religion and
spiritual matters.

6.  He wrote books about
his drug experience,
most famously The
Doors of Perception
(1954, from which the
1960s rock group The
Doors took their name).
 Huxley lived in
California until his dead
from cancer in 1963.

7.  Huxley was a young man in the
1920s and the climate of
hopelessness felt by many at
that time had a great effect on
his work. These were the years
after World War I, the most
destructive war in human
history.
 Weapons of mass destruction
were first used in this war,
destroying the late nineteenth-
century belief that science could
only improve the quality of
people’s life.
The fact that science can also be put
to evil uses is a central idea in
Huxley’s writing.

8.  Brave New World represents
Aldous Huxley reflections on the
state of the society he lives in.
 He questioned the value of a
generation that, in its search for
happiness, spent its money on
material possessions and its
time on selfish pleasures and
shallow relantionships.

9.  He observed that there was an
urgent need for social stability,
but he was also anxious about
current political trends and
possible future world
domination by one powerful
country.
 This are serious issues, but they
are presented in Brave New
World in a highly readable, often
humorous, way.

12. • Religion has been an issue that
we have many years ago that has
been increasing its number of
followers as well as the variety
of religions that we find today.
One of the most important
aspects of the religion is how he
sees cloning as there are many
aspects about the soul and
ethical issues that are
accompanied with fully discover
this and are creating a major
controversy between the
scientific and religious world.

13. • According to the Catholic
Church which he
represents, research using
human embryos are
absolutely immoral.
• According to the Catholic
Church's position from the
moment of conception an
embryo is a person and
deserves to be preserved
and not subject to
scientific manipulation.

15. • Cloning can be defined as the process by
which identical copies are already
developed a body, so asexual. These two
features are important:
It is part of an animal and developed
because cloning responds to an interest
in obtaining copies of a specific animal
that interests us, and only when an adult
know their characteristics.
On the other hand, it is asexually. Sexual
reproduction allows us to get identical
copies, as this type of reproduction by its
very nature generates diversity.

16.  Ian Wilmut was
convinced of the
usefulness of cloning
human cells from
embryos that will never
be born
 cloning would bring
benefits to create new
tissues for
transplantation into
humans

17. Religion
 church condemns
human cloning, freezing
of embryos and ova, the
deliberate destruction of
embryos, the morning
after pill and the use of
embryonic stem cells for
research.
 A sect called "The
Raelians” states that
human beings on this
planet Earth from
extraterrestrial beings of
superior intelligence,
and certainly we are the
product of a clone of
them.
Cloning

18. • As we have seen the cloning has many aspects but also against other aspects
that have not been able to explore more and that at some point in our existence
could help move forward scientifically and healing to people especially through
the reconstruction of tissues and the creation of new cells that could save lives.
We may also get to the point to start changing our way of thinking and begin to
build a society and we could brave new world and organization and no
ambition to achieve a more controlled and more positive

20.  The World War I was one of the
most conflict battles in 1914 and
it end in 1918. It’s been more
than 80 years. And now in 2010
we are reading the book The
Brave New World, a lot have
change since that event
happened in the war 7 million
were permanently disabled, and
15 million were seriously injured.

21.  By 1922, there were between 4.5 million and 7 million homeless
children in Russia as a result of nearly a decade of devastation from
World War I, in the book we can find that every person it was created
by the Central London Hatching And Centre have a home, doesn’t
matter is Alpha the high social class or de Epsilons that were the
workers in the factory, they all have a home

22.  Russia had about 25 million infections and 3 million
deaths from epidemic typhus, in the future the author
Aldous Huxley make the DHC that all babies were
born in fertilizers room and created a world with no
infectious so it’s a healthy world,

24.  In Brave New World
everyone is like
communism everyone is
equal in every form, they try
to create that.
 In the book we can find that
everything is in mass
production that is one of
the similarities with the war
everyone died in mass, just
that in the book they create
for good and in the war they
died innocent an evil
people.

25.  World War I (also known as First World War,
Great War or War of Wars, abbreviated
WWI) was a military conflict centered on
Europe that began in the summer of 1914. The
fighting ended in late 1918.
 This conflict involved all of the world's great
powers, assembled in two opposing alliances:
the Allies and the Central Powers.
 More than 70 million military personnel,
including 60 million Europeans, were
mobilized in one of the largest wars in history.
 More than 9 million combatants were killed,
due largely to great technological advances in
firepower without corresponding ones in
mobility. It was the second deadliest conflict
in history.

26.  The story is set in a London six
hundred years in the future.
 People all around the world are
part of a totalitarian state, free
from war, hatred, poverty,
disease, and pain. They enjoy
leisure time, material wealth,
and physical pleasures.
 The Controllers, eliminate most
forms of freedom and twist
around many traditionally held
human values. Standardization
and progress are valued above all
else.

27.  These Controllers create human
beings in factories, using technology
to make ninety-six people from the
same fertilized egg and to condition
them for their future lives.
 Children are raised together and
subjected to mind control through
sleep teaching to further condition
them.
 As adults, people are content to fulfill
their destinies as part of five social
classes, from the intelligent Alphas,
who run the factories, to the mentally
challenged Epsilons, who do the most
menial jobs.

29.  Huxley also worked for a time in the
1920s at the technologically-advanced
Brunner and Mond chemical plant in
Billingham, Teesside. In his famous
science fiction novel Brave New World
(1932) he states that this experience of
"an ordered universe in a world of
planless incoherence".
 Huxley decision of the invention of
the Bokanovsky process, that include
the bottling room and the organ store,
because in the book he created a
future world that its all about
scientific methods

30.  The characters in Brave New World Huxley used the
youth in his society and held his opinion about the
fear of losing indivilual identity in the fast paced world
of the future

31.  Brave new world was printed during the World War
I, in 1932. In this time there was conflict, deaths and
hurt people. But this book reflects the pacific time of a
new era, where people where always happy working in
what they like.

32.  The mass production of society.
 Intense time of work.
 Military structure.

33.  To conclude this book is like the opposite of the war,
and the author make us have a conscience that a better
world is been creating and it’s a place where everyone
can live.