It was in this time, when the world made the first steps towards huge scientific and technological advances. ... Creativity is instead replaced by mundane tasks, because machines do most of the work. ... Without literature, people will live in a stable society, but have to pay the price of never being creative or thinking. ... Huxley shows that sometimes when the citizens were alone or had a moment of free time, creative forces tended to come up. ... People are conditioned against love, nature, literature and other naturally desired forms of expression. ...

• Word Count: 1526
• Approx Pages: 6

Censorship of literature is not a new concern, but an old one; and it is a concern that will certainly stay with librarians into the new millennium. ... Everyone is happy all of the time, thanks to the mood-altering drug, Somma. ... Another is the creation of complicated entertainment machines that generate both harmless leisure and the high levels of consumption and production that are the basis of the world State's stability. ... So much so that this is one of top 100 banned books of all time in a public school setting. ...

• Word Count: 1130
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

"Ninety-six identical twins working ninety-six identical machines!"... "That young man will come to a bad end," they said prophesying the more confidently in that they in due coarse see to it that the end was bad, "He won't find another Savage to help him out another time," they said. ... He knows that the world is capable of being much better, capable of greater literature and, most of all, he knows that he is capable of creating it. ...

• Word Count: 1043
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School