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A 4 page research paper/essay that discusses critical response to Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World. The writer includes details from Huxley’s biography and also discusses the current critical opinion of this novel and Huxley’s legacy. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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Huxley" and his mother was the great-niece of the "Victorian eras preeminent man of letters, poet-philosopher Matthew Arnold" (Izzo 86). He died on November 22, 1963, the same day that
American President John F. Kennedy was assassinated, an event that pushed everything else from the newspapers and media (Izzo 86). Otherwise, Huxleys death would have undoubtedly generated innumerable "retrospectives of
his life and work," which his numerous accomplishments richly deserved (Izzo 86). "Tall, witty, charismatic, conspicuously handsome, a polymath, Aldous Huxley was an intellectual lighthouse for over forty years,"
as he wrote "poetry; drama; screenplays; journalism; biography; social," etc. (Carlson). However, "above all else, he was a novelist" (Carlson). Among his most notable work is his novel Brave New
World, which is frequently selected as one of the "greatest novels in all of literature" (Izzo 86). However, the critical reception of this novel when it was first published in
1932 was far different from the way in which critics view this novel today. Brave New World was banned in Australia for four years after its publication on the
grounds of obscenity (Watt 3). H.G. Wells commented regarding Brave New World that he found the book to be a great "disappointment" and that a "writer of the standing of
Aldous Huxley has no right to betray the future as he did in that book" (Watt 16). Critic Wyndman Lewis agreed with Wells, and referred to Huxleys novel an "an
unforgivable offense to Progress and to political uplift of every description" (Watt 16). As this suggests, contemporary reviewers were "quick to mistake Huxleys satire for lack of seriousness" (Watt 16).
H.G. Harwood of Londons Saturday Review wrote at the time of the books first publication (i.e. 1932) that he felt that Huxley intended the novel "as a Lark" (Watt
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