BNW+Research-worthy

Please record a list of questions, ideas, concepts, or anything else that you deem research-worthy.

In many respects, //Brave New World// is a door, or portal, into other fields of inquiry. Some novels function best as conversation-starters, as is the case with Huxley's book.

Some items from the following list might become fuel for class debate; others might become the basis of your own research, for credit in this class. For now, I ask that no idea be considered too small or too silly. Let's just get a nice list going:

Per. 4 ideas Per. 8 ideas


 * Huxley's approach in defining a "perfect society."
 * Artificial creation of life
 * Significance/impact of Caste System ( Social Stability)
 * Manipulating history (throughout history)
 * Social Stability of different social systems
 * Social Mobility
 * Censorship
 * Conditioning
 * Everyone belongs to everyone else (no private property)
 * Absence of the standard "family."
 * attitude towards pleasure seeking hedonism
 * consumerism - trained to want
 * Utopian/dystopian
 * Mixture of Government and Religion
 * Dehumanization
 * Are the citizens in a "Brave New World" human? What does it mean to be human?
 * Humans as Machines
 * Biodiversity - gene pool size necessity?
 * Social Freedom
 * Propaganda
 * Government regulation (or distribution) of drugs
 * Spying and surveillance
 * Has a society like this existed throughout history, can it or will it exist?
 * Why did Huxley write this book?
 * emotional stability