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1. Brave New World
Aldous Huxley
Christine Wells

2. Managing self
The Author
Gathering
Aldous Leonard Huxley (26 July 1894 – 22
November 1963) was an English writer and
one of the most prominent members of the
famous Huxley family. Best known for his
novels including Brave New World and a
wide-ranging output of essays, Huxley also
edited the magazine Oxford Poetry, and
published short stories, poetry, travel writing,
film stories and scripts. Huxley spent the later
part of his life in the United States, living in
Los Angeles from 1937 until his death.
Aldous Huxley was a humanist, pacifist, and
satirist, and he was latterly interested in
spiritual subjects such as parapsychology and
philosophical mysticism. He is also well
known for advocating and taking
psychedelics.

3. Thinking
Using language, text and symbols
Managing self
The Context
Participating and contributing Processing
Applying
1. In what ways did Huxley's education
influence his writing?
2. How did Huxley's eye disease influence his
writing?
3. List 3 themes that Huxley deals with in his
writing.
4. Identify the band that was influenced by
Huxley in the 1960s. Which book influenced
them?
5. Define Utopia.
6. Define Dystopia.
7. Predict which term will most likely describe
Brave New World.

4. Processing
Plot Quiz
Thinking
Relating
Using language, text and symbols
Managing self
Participating and contributing

12. Gathering
Setting
Time· 2540 a.d.; referred to
in the novel as 632 years
“After Ford,” meaning 632
years after the production of
the first Model T car.
Places· London, England;
The lighthouse; Savage
Reservation in New Mexico.

13. Processing
Applying
1. Where is the savage reservation?
2. Describe the reservation and its inhabitants.
3. Describe what happens in the 'quaint native ceremony'.
4. Create a chart which shows the different levels of society in
London. Explain what each level is responsible for.
5. In pairs, design a poster which lists the laws of the 'new world'.
Include at least 5. Make your poster colourful and well
presented.
6. In pairs, design a webpage which advertises the lighthouse and
John the savage as a tourist destination. Include images and a
description of what can be seen and experienced. Thinking
Relating
Using language, text and symbols
Managing self
Participating and contributing

14. Characters
Gathering

15. Characters: John the
Processing
Applying savage
1. Create a profile for John. Include name, age,
interests, adjectives to describe his
personality and his family situation.
2. Explain why John is the ultimate outsider.
Include a quote to support your explanation.
3. Explain where John gets his values from.
4. Identify 3 ways that John's knowledge of
Shakespeare is helpful to him.
5. In what way is it a hindrance?
6. Create a chart that shows the differences Thinking
between John's values and the values of Using language, text and symbols
London society. Include quotes. Managing self
Participating and contributing

16. Characters: Bernard Marx
Processing
Applying
1. In what way is Bernard's entry into the
novel ironic?
2. Explain why he is interesting to the reader.
3. Create a flowchart that shows the changes
in Bernard's fortunes. Include detailed
explanations and quotes for each change.
4. Explain why he is a hypocrite. Include
examples.
5. Describe John, Helmholtz and Lenina's
Thinking
attitudes to Bernard. Include a quote for Using language, text and symbols
each character. Managing self
Participating and contributing

17. Characters: Helmholtz
Processing
Applying Watson
1. Helmholtz is what Bernard wishes to
be like. List his positive
characteristics.
2. Explain why Helmholtz criticises the
World State. What is the difference
between his reasons and Bernard's
reasons.
3. Create a compare/contrast chart to
show the similarities and differences
between Helmholtz and John.
4. Explain what the conversations
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between Helmholtz and John Using language, text and symbols
demonstrate. Include an example Managing self
from the novel. Participating and contributing

18. Minor characters
Processing
Applying
1. In groups of 2-3, choose 2 of the minor
characters and complete the following:
2. Create a profile for each character. Include
name, age, social status, occupation,
interests, an image to represent their
character.
3. Complete a compare/contrast chart for your
chosen characters.
4. Identify a conflict that each character faces in
the novel and explain how they dealt with it. Thinking
Relating
5. Record a 'signature' quote for each character. Using language, text and symbols
Managing self
Participating and contributing

19. Essay 1: Choose one of the questions and
write at least 400 words.
Applying
1.Analyse how a main character OR individual
matures and takes action in a text you have
studied.
2.Analyse how the growth OR breakdown of a
relationship(s) affects the climax in a text you
have studied.
3.Analyse how the writer has influenced your
opinion of a choice made by a character OR Thinking
individual in a text you have studied. Using language, text and
symbols
Managing self

20. Research
Gathering
Processing
Applying
Thinking
Relating
Using language, text and symbols
Managing self
Participating and contributing

21. Themes: the use of technology to
Gathering
control society
Processing
Applying
1. What warning is Huxley giving the reader?
2. List 3 examples of the technologies that BNW
criticises.
3. List examples from real life that are similar to these.
4. Explain what the World State means by science?
5. Explain what the State uses science for. Why does it
limit real science?
6. Identify 2 characters that you would link with this
theme and describe an event from the text which
links them with this theme. Include at least 1 quote Thinking
for each character. Using language, text and symbols
Managing self
Participating and contributing

22. Themes: The incompatibility of
happiness and truth Gathering
Processing
1. Explain how soma acts as a tool for promoting social stability. Locate a quote to Applying
support your answer.
2. Do we have tools to promote social stability in our society? What examples can you
think of?
3. Why does the World State prioritise happiness at the expense of truth?
4. Explain what Mond believes happiness is. Locate a quote to support your answer.
5. Identify the 2 types of truth that the State wants to cover up. Explain the difference
between each one.
6. Identify 2 characters that can be linked with this theme. Include examples from the
text.
Thinking
7. Explain what the search for truth involves. Why does the State want to stop it? Relating
Using language, text and
symbols
8. In pairs, write an advert or create a storyboard that could be used in the World
Managing self
State to promote happiness. Participating and
contributing

23. Themes: The consumer society
Gathering
Processing
Applying
1. BNW is a satire of the society that we live in. Define
satire.
2. In what way is BTW satirical? Include quotes.
3. Do you agree that the World State is an extreme but
logically developed version of our society? Explain why
and include examples.
4. Explain what happiness means to you.
5. Complete a compare/contrast chart to show the
similarities and differences between your definition of
happiness and the definition of happiness in the World
State. Thinking
Using language, text and symbols
Managing self
Participating and contributing

24. Essay 2:Choose one of the questions and
write at least 400 words.
Applying
1. Analyse how the setting of a text you have
studied influenced your understanding of the
ideas in the text.
2. Analyse how an idea is developed in a text you
have studied.
Thinking
Using language, text and symbols
Managing self

25. Narrative Style: motifs
Gathering
Processing
Motifs are recurring structures, contrasts, and
literary devices that can help to develop and
inform the text’s major themes.
Adjective: PNEUMATIC
3. Define the word according to the dictionary.
4. What is Huxley's meaning for the word?
Explain why this adjective is used in BNW.
5.
6. Include a quote.
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26. FORD
2. Explain the reason for this term in the novel. Include a quote.
ALIENATION
4. Identify 3 characters that are linked to this motif.
5.Explain why each one is linked. Include quotes.
6. Why is this motif important in the novel?
SEX
8. Describe what the State does to control sex and produce babies. Include a quote.
9. Explain why John and Lenina can never be together.
SHAKESPEARE
11. Explain why Huxley has includes references to Shakespeare throughout the novel. Include quotes.

27. Narrative Style: symbols
Gathering
Symbols are objects,
characters, figures, and colors
used to represent abstract
ideas or concepts.
SOMA
Identify the 3 things that
3.
soma represents. Include
quotes. Thinking
Relating
Using language, text and symbols
Managing self
Participating and contributing

28. Narrative Style: Narrative point of view
Gathering
Processing
Third-person omniscient; the narrator frequently makes
passages of “objective” description sound like the speech
or thought patterns of a particular character, using a
technique usually called “free indirect quotation.”
Locate and record a short passage of the text as an
2.
example.
Point of view · Narrated in the third person, primarily
from the point of view of Bernard or John but also from
the point of view of Lenina, Helmholtz Watson, and
Mustapha Mond.
4. Record 3 examples of 3 characters points of view.
Explain the benefits and drawbacks of this style of
5.
narration.

29. Narrative style: Tone
Gathering
Processing
Satirical, ironic, silly, tragic,
juvenile, pedantic.
Choose 3 of the above
2.
adjectives and record events
from the text which relate to
each adjective.
Include a quote for each
3.
event.
Explain the author’s purpose
4.
– why does he use this tone?

30. Applying
Common Test Thinking
Using language, text and symbols
Managing self
1. Analyse how a main character OR individual matures and takes action in a text (or texts) you have studied.
2. Analyse how the growth OR breakdown of a relationship(s) affects the climax in a text (or texts) you have
studied.
3. Analyse how the writer(s) has influenced your opinion of a choice made by a character OR individual in a
text (or texts) you have studied.
4. Analyse how the setting of a text (or texts) you have studied influenced your understanding of the ideas in
the text (or texts). (Note: Setting may include reference to time, place, historical or social context, or
atmosphere.)
5. Analyse how an idea is developed in a text (or texts) you have studied.
6. Analyse how symbols are used to develop an idea in a text (or texts) you have studied.
7. Analyse how techniques of a genre or text type make a text(s) particularly effective for you. (Note: Genres
and text types may include short story, novel, types of poetry and song, drama script, print or non-fiction
texts.)

31. Bibliography
http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/bravenew/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_New_World