(1) These excerpts concern the role of literature, science, education and the over-all structure of society for example, from which a list of similarities and dissimilarities may be derived.
Therefore Russell's scientific study has been thought to function as a source for Huxley's long-seller, and this is probably also the reason why extracts from these two works have been compared in recent didactic resources. As to Bertrand Russell and Aldous Huxley, it is a well-known fact that the two were friends and that Russell's The Scientific Outlook (SCO) was released one year only (1931) before Huxley's Brave New World (BNW) (1932). Parallel hunting and source hunting has been a familiar procedure in literary scholarship for a long time. The following considerations may be used in order to supplement any systematic teaching model concerning BNW.īertrand Russell's and Aldous Huxley's Ideas of a Futuristic World State In the following Huxley's most famous work will be compared to Bertrand Russell's academic study The Scientific Outlook, which was published only a short time before Huxley's dystopia. Brave New World - The Scientific Outlook: a Critical Comparison Īll his life long, Aldous Huxley was an avid reader and, without any doubt, his novel Brave New World ( BNW) was inspired by many contemporary sources.
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