Episode 304: Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World" Ch. 14-End
The Literary Life Podcast
Angelina Stanford
4.7 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 25 November 2025
⏱️ 112 minutes
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Summary
Today on The Literary Life podcast, Angelina, Thomas, and Ella cover the final chapters of Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. They begin the conversation considering the ending of the story and mistakes readers may make in thinking it is a despairing ending. Angelina asks the question "how does Huxley tell us to interpret the ending?" They also dig deeper into the rest of the last few chapters, including more instances of parody, religion and self-denial, and so much symbolism!
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| 1:12.6 | Hello and welcome back to our final episode of this series we've been doing on Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. |
| 1:36.4 | With me is our special guest, Miss Ella Hornstra, who's not wearing velveteen shorts. |
| 1:42.4 | Did you not get the memo that we were doing to dress a light today? |
| 1:45.3 | Oh, I guess not. No. But the problem with this is that can you even see shorts on a Zoom meeting? |
| 1:53.0 | Fortunately not. We could pretend. Yes. He says fortunately not because he did get the memo and he is wearing |
| 1:58.7 | his velveteen shorts. Of course. Actually, in full sincerity, in full sincerity, I do not own any that because he did get the memo and he is wearing his velvetine shorts of course actually and now he's |
| 2:01.6 | in full sincerity in full sincerity i do not own any shorts velveteen i do not wear shorts in public |
| 2:07.9 | yeah you can testify you've never seen me walking around with my knees exposed outside this is correct |
| 2:13.0 | which is probably good for the world you know that they don't have to see my knees. But yeah, |
| 2:18.2 | shorts are not my thing. This is me biting my lip and not to have this a whole long |
| 2:23.1 | conversation. No, that's actually something I inherited from my father. I remember thinking it odd |
| 2:26.6 | that my father, I do not have any memories of my father wearing shorts in public either, like |
| 2:31.3 | on a Saturday. He was always a long pants guy. I've turned into that |
| 2:35.2 | same guy. See, my grandparents were like that and they they were both farmers in the south and always |
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