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Huxley's 'Brave New World.'.(Aldous Huxley's novel)

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From: The Explicator
Date: 19980922
Author:McGiveron, Rafeeq O.

Aldous Huxley resorted to irony and the mixing of incompatibilities in his novel entitled 'Brave New World.' His characters have names that appear to be the opposite of what they represented or at best elicit ambiguous interpretations. He mentions both historical leftists and rightists and put them together in a fictional world. The author's intention for such a mixup is to illustrate the value of defining the individual from the collective tyranny of a group.

Aldous Huxley's Brave New World (1932) "is told with a perfect balance of wit and humor" (Aldiss 185), and an important part of ...

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