Brave New World

This is a study guide for the novel Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. The entire book is available online at https://www.huxley.net/bnw/.

Table of Contents

• Background information (Wikipedia)

The basics

• Summary
• Characters
• Castes
• Symbols and References

Thinking Critically

• Utopia and Dystopia
• Hedonism
• Eugenics
• Conditioning (repetition)
• Birth and Death
• Comparison to Nineteen Eighty-Four
• Essay questions
• Character Analysis:
  • Bernard Marx
  • John
  • Helmholtz Watson