Episode 303: Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World" Ch. 8-13
The Literary Life Podcast
Angelina Stanford
4.7 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 18 November 2025
⏱️ 97 minutes
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Summary
This week on The Literary Life podcast, Angelina, Thomas, and Ella continue discussing Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. They begin engaging with the text today by talking more about satire and parody as elements in this story. While recapping the major plot points in these chapters, they go deeper into the character of John the Savage, the ways in which this story is like a distorted reflection of The Tempest and Othello, as well as so many other Shakespeare references. Come back again next week for our final episode in this series as we cover the final chapters of Brave New World!
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| 1:09.7 | This is the Literary Life Podcast. |
| 1:31.2 | Welcome back to the Literary Life podcast. |
| 1:37.0 | This is episode three of our series on Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. I am Angelina Stanford here with special guest Ella Hornstra and my own Alpha Plus, Mr. Banks. |
| 1:44.9 | Hello, hello. |
| 1:46.2 | I don't know about that Alpha Plus thing, though. |
| 1:48.0 | You were going to say something. |
| 1:49.1 | You think you're an epsilon? |
| 1:50.2 | Yeah, well, maybe, I don't know. |
| 1:51.9 | Maybe happy medium. |
| 1:53.0 | Get back into the mind. |
| 1:54.0 | I'd like to think I would be, you know, maybe a gamma or something like that. |
| 1:57.2 | Maybe a gamma. |
| 1:57.9 | Wow, one can hope. |
| 1:59.3 | The journey of the soul to becoming a gamma. Yeah. I would just like to point out that... One of my sadder aspirations right there. I have, in fact, had a violent passion for you. No surrogate needed. Oh, okay. All right. This is getting kind of steamy already. We're making the audience uncomfortable. Look at all five seconds. Well, you know, it's what I do. |
| 2:19.7 | Before we jump in with this next section of Brave New World, |
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