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According to, this week is for "the annual celebration of the freedom to read." Every year the American Library Association’s Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF) puts together a list of 10 books that were the most challenged that year. Instead of fixing clothes or things that are broken, it is better to throw them away and buy something new.September Literacy Month Happy Banned Books Week!īanned Book Week is celebrated from September 24-30 this year. Linda, on the other hand, is physically repulsive and a mother she is a living obscenity.

Why is everyone interested in John but not Linda? John is young and handsome and was born rather than decanted these things made him interesting to the people. Why is everyone interested in John not Linda?Ģ.

His death puts an end to the possibility of living independently outside the dystopia - except on the socially sanctioned island outposts - or changing it from within. John's suicide represents self-loathing, his disgust at becoming sexually indiscriminate, in the way Linda and Lenina were conditioned to behave. The main argument against the brave new world, as stated by John the Savage to Mustapha Mond in chapter 17, is the right to be unhappy, which is synonymous with the right to be imperfectly human. What is the main argument against brave new world? Instead of fixing clothes or things that are broken, it is better to throw them away and buy something new. What does Ending is better than mending mean in brave new world?Įnding is better than mending.” This line from the hypnopædia tapes emphasizes the importance of consumption to Fordist society. Because of its illegality, many in Soviet-controlled territory first read it in pirated, 'samizdat' form.Īnimal Farm, by George Orwell Its findings identified the novel on its list of "problem books" the reason cited was that " Orwell was a communist." Suppressed from being displayed at the 1977 Moscow, Russia International Book Fair. The American Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) funded a cartoon version in 1955. The book was misunderstood and was seen as being critical of all forms of socialism, rather than specifically Stalinist communism.
