Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen, the focus for today will be the novel Brave New World, By Aldous Huxley, published in 1932. Brave New World takes place in a futuristic society where people are grown in almost identical embryos and are conditioned from birth to eliminate all natural human desires; love, relationships and strong emotions. Members of the society are encouraged to consume as much as possible and to take a drug called soma to keep them constantly happy. We will be discussing the merit of the novel and I will be presenting reasons for its current and continued place in the Western Literary Canon and education system. The Western Literary Canon is a collection of the world’s most highly regarded and influential literature. If