Brave New World

This guide is your companion through Huxley’s unsettling vision of a world engineered for comfort at the cost of freedom. Inside: thematic explorations, discussion prompts, and a theoretical framework that invites you to read critically and collaboratively.

Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World (1932) is a cornerstone of dystopian fiction and an eerily prescient critique of engineered pleasure, technocratic control, and the cost of comfort.

Theoretical Companion: “The Political Function of the Intellectual” by Michel Foucault

This text questions the standard role of intellectuals: not merely as observers but as active agents shaping power. It bridges theory and political practice -- exactly what students of Brave New World need to interrogate authority and ideology.

Also Included in this Guide

• Context
• Key Themes
• Discussion/Essay Prompts
• Theoretical Discussion

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