Why should the book, "Brave New World" be banned inpublic schools? why or why not?

Question

I'm doing a school project whether this book should be banned from class.
I opersonally don;t wana read it as an assiagn in English class...

Answer 1

You don't want to read it, and so it should be banned?

It's a great book, with a lot of fascinating ideas, and an ideal assignment for an English class. English education is about learning to make INFORMED choices about what is good and bad in literature, not about banning everything which depicts behaviour not generally approved of in today's society.

Answer 2

Brave New World has always been required reading in schools. Are you speaking of an actual current debate that it should be banned or are you speaking hyothetically? It is only offensive in subject matter. It describes a futuristic totalitarian government in which people are de-humanized. Having been assigned it in the 1960's, it's interesting to see how much of it has become reality in the area of scientific advancements. I'm not for censorship, although as a teacher, I support the idea that some books can be on the library shelves, but shouldn't necessarily be required in the classroom. That is what the book-banning controversy is often about. I take the whole "Banned Book Day" business with a huge grain of salt. Brave New World should be required reading.

Answer 3

There's probably a million and one equally stupid reasons somebody could think of for removing the book from public schools but I think the very fact that the book is full of controversial issues and ideas is precisely why it's such an amazing book. In the 1930s this book was WAY ahead of its time. I thoroughly enjoyed this book and took some valuable lessons from it and I'm really not even a very big fan of novels.

To me Brave New World should be a mandatory read, and no book should be banned since that is a fundamental violation of free speech. I don't even think the Patriot Act should be able to regulate the books an individual checks out at the library but that's just me I guess...

Answer 4

Yes. Ban it. NOT!!!
Listen.
This is one of the few books ever written that is more prophetic than the Bible. Like the Bible, Huxley's "Brave New World," written way back in the 1940's?, examines genetic engineering, rampant sexual decay and immorality, drug acceptability, governmental control of the preceding, and lack of individuality. Psychopathic behavior becomes the sociological norm. The last free thinking man is driven from society and in the last few pages of the novel comes the realization that all of man's accomplishments are little better than an outstretched finger pointing up at the Creator. Set as a Utopian model, the world constructed in this work by Huxley is one of the best uses of irony since the Old Testament.
Good God! Read it twice!!!
Then read something by me.