Name:

Date:
Ms. Cohen
Class: /Period:
Brave New World
Introduction: This Web-search is designed to expose you to the life and work of one of our
most esteemed authors, Aldous Huxley, and his satiric novel, Brave New World.

Process: Answer the following questions by going to the suggested cite.

Remember, these cites are only suggestions and helpful hints.

William Shakespeare:
http://www.william-shakespeare.info/william-shakespeare-plays.htm
Provide a brief summary of each of the following works:
1. The Tempest
King Alonso and a group sail back to Naples after his daughter's wedding, and they
get caught in a tempest summoned by exiled Duke of Milan, Prospero. They become
stranded on an island, everyone apologizes to Prospero and let him regain his
dukedom.
2. Troilus and Cressida
Troilus, a brother of Paris, falls in love with Cressida who pretends to not like him.
The setting is the Trojan War and other heroes are covered.
3. Othello
Venetian general Othello promotes Cassio to lieutenant and Iago is jealous. After
Iago conspires to kill Cassio using Rodrigo's jealousy of Cassio and Rodrigo's love
for Othello's wife Desmondena, Iago, Rodrigo, Desmondena, and Othello all die due
to a sequence of fights and Cassio becomes governor of Cyprus.
4. Hamlet
Prince Hamlet learns from his father's ghost that Claudius, who had just married
the Queen Gertude, poisoned him to death. He swears revenge, and in the end
eavesdropper Polonius and his son Laertes, Gertude, Claudius, Hamlet, and Ophelia
(Hamlet's lover) all die.
5. King Lear
King Lear is a blind man and divides his kingdom to his 3 daughters, according to
who recites her love the best. In the end, everyone dies.
6. Macbeth
Three witches predict that Macbeth will become king but Banquo will be the father
of kings. Macbeth thus murders King Duncan to ascend to power, and Macduff
knows about it and kills Macbeth, bringing Duncan's son Malcolm back to power.
7. Romeo and Juliet
Romeo falls in love with Juliet, of a rival family, and after killing her cousin Tybalt
is banished from Verona. Juliet hatches a plan with Friar Lawrence to fake her
death and run away with Romeo, but news reaches Romeo late. Believing that his
loved one is death, Romeo kills himself and then Juliet does the same, and the two
families quell the feud after this tragedy.

Allusions:
1. Who is Ford, Henry? When did he live? How has he created history?
http://www.time.com/time/time100/builder/profile/ford.html
http://www.incwell.com/Biographies/Ford.html
2. Who is Malthus, Thomas? When did he live? How is he significant to history?
http://cepa.newschool.edu/het/profiles/malthus.htm

A perfect world:
1. Define Utopia.
http://www.euro.net/mark-space/Utopia.html
2. Define Dystopia.
3. Find and describe a real life "paradise".
http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/offthemap/#

Science:
1. What is cloning? Is it safe?
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/9702/24/cloned.sheep/index.html
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/9703/04/clinton.cloning/
http://www.salon.com/feb97/news/news2970224.html
2. Does human cloning exist? How?
http://www.globalchange.com/clonlink.htm
3. Are we a genetic experiment, or are scientists going too far in genetically
engineering babies?
http://www.geneticengineering.org/
http://www.greenpeace.org/international/campaigns/genetic-engineering

Conditioning:
1. Who is Ivan Pavlov?
2. What are the differences between classical and instrumental conditioning?
http://www.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=doc&id=9712&cn=353
http://www.as.wvu.edu/~sbb/comm221/chapters/pavlov.htm
3. Is it appropriate for the government to condition humans? Why or why not?

Meet the author:

1. Who is Aldous Huxley?
2. Provide a brief synopsis of the author and his times.
http://www.euro.net/mark-space/bioAldousHuxley.html
http://somaweb.org/w/huxbio.html