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Flood, Alison. "Books." //www.guardian.co.uk//. N.p., 12 Apr 2011. Web. 24 Mar 2013. .

This article covers more than just Brave New World; it is inclusive to the top ten books that Americans attempted to band in 2012. The beginning of this article refers to the first banning of Brave New World – occurring in Ireland in1932. The strongest recurring theme in this article is the fact that Huxley’s masterpiece is now surrounded by modern books; it has lived on as one of the most controversial books of all time. Its explicit scenes, offensive language and insensitivity have kept parents ranting for almost 91 years.

Shelokhonov, Steve. "Aldous Huxley." //IMDb//. IMDb. Web. 24 Mar 2013. .

Shelokhonov’s biography of Aldous Huxley is very interesting. Shelokhonov seems to relate much of Huxleys life to his book Brave New World. Huxley’s lifestyle, as defined by Shelokhonov, was a very mystical one. Huxley would often do drugs and meditate before writing. At the end of his biography Shelohonov includes many random facts from Huxley’s life. In1959 Huxley is known to have declined knighthood. Huxley’s death was lost in time because it so happened to be on the same day as John F. Kennedy’s assassination. After reading Huxley’s biography, it’s easy to understand where he gets many of his opinions and why he wrote about such a topic.

"Banned Books Week: Brave New World by Aldous Huxley." //Words for Worms//. Words for Worms, 10 3 2012. Web. Web. 24 Mar. 2013. .

This article is part of a series called “Banned Books week.” It describes many of the reasons why Brave New World was banned in Ireland. At the same time, it provides a satirical rational for why modern life doesn’t suck. This article gives a brief synopsis (unintentionally) of the first few chapters before digging in deep and talking about Huxley’s ideas. The author of this article describes Huxley as DaVinci-esque because Huxley basically invented the idea of birth control, in-vitro fertilization, and television.Many of the ideas Huxley used in his novel are still controversial today so it is easy to understand why this book was considered such a terrible piece of literature when it was first published.

Lombardi, Esther. "Classic Literature." //About.com//. Classic Literature. Web. 24 Mar 2013. .

This article, like many of the previous articles, describes the world Huxley created and why it was controversial in 1932. Unlike many other articles I read, this one does see the irony developed in Brave New World. Huxley is mocking other books written about Utopian societies and perfection because there will never be true perfection. Bernard Shaw (The flawed clone) is included in this book to draw that picture for Huxley’s audiences. This article does understand that fact and is very strong because of it.

Shmoop Editorial Team. "Brave New World Writing Style" //Shmoop.com //. Shmoop University, Inc., 11 Nov. 2008. Web. 25 Mar. 2013.

Style is one thing that defines a novel. Scmoop makes the case in this article that the way that Huxley wrote Brave New World is the reason that it hasn’t faded from the banned books lists of the most modern years. Huxley hides many details from his readers until the final moments. He even provokes the minds imagination by intentionally leaving things up to individual interpretation. Huxley’s writing style adds a whole different level to Brave New World and defines it as an intellectual, satirical novel.

Brave New World is a book about a dystopian society where children are grown. Children in this futuristic world are all cloned through an external chemical process. The people in this movie poster do not have faces; this is to dehumanize them and to help portray them all as simple beings. In Huxley’s novel, children are tested at a juvenile age to determine which social class they will be placed in. They are categorized into one of the following: the betas, the alphas, the gammas, the deltas, or the epsilons. I selectively used the colors black and white in my movie poster because I wanted to show that the people in this world can’t make their own decisions or express themselves freely. The main building (the tall skinny one in the center) intentionally has a viewing platform placed high above the masses of people. This represents a higher point where the government is; this body controls everyone’s lives and is always watching.

Brave New World should NOT be banned. Although it is filled with sexually explicit scenes, this novel offers much more than just pornographic themes. If you pay any attention to the plot in this novel your brain will automatically be filled with new opinions. This book shows its audience the extent of intellectual thought in the 1930’s because every idea in this novel belongs to Huxley. For instance, the people in this futuristic world worship Henry Ford, fly everywhere, are all clones of each other, drink a liquid called Soma which fixes all of their problems, have extremely open relationships, are taught in their sleep and are “born” with no rights to make anything out of their lives other what has been pre-determined. Overall, this is an extremely thought provoking, well written novel that shouldn’t be banned anywhere. Although its ideas are mature, Brave New World is written in a manner as if to “run off” the intellectually incapable.