In Aldous Huxley's 'Brave New World,' what is the name of the euphoria-producing drug distributed to keep citizens docile?

Literature

Which author wrote the 1932 novel 'Brave New World,' which imagined a future society pacified through pleasure rather than fear?

Aldous Huxley predicted in Brave New World that people would be controlled not by force but pleasure and pharmaceutical distraction—now studied by neuroscientists.

Literature

Who wrote 'The Handmaid's Tale'?

'The Handmaid's Tale' won the Booker Prize and has been adapted into acclaimed television and theatrical productions.

Literature

Which author deliberately built deceptive charm into a 1955 novel's narrator, a trick many early critics missed by taking his account at face value?

Nabokov intended readers to distrust Humbert Humbert in 'Lolita,' but many early reviewers believed his charm and took his narrative at face value, missing the unreliability entirely.

Literature

T.S. Eliot's use of dense literary allusion so complex it required his own footnotes is most closely associated with which early 20th-century poetry movement?

Modernist poets like T.S. Eliot required footnotes for their own work because allusions were so dense that readers couldn't follow without scholarly guides.

Literature

What is the title of Albrecht von Haller's 1732 poem that popularized appreciation for Alpine scenery and influenced Romantic attitudes toward nature?

The Romantic movement began partly because a Swiss scientist proved mountains weren't ugly—Albrecht von Haller's poetry made Alpine peaks fashionable to celebrate.

Literature

Political faction disputes led to Dante Alighieri's exile from which Italian city, where he never set foot again?

Dante Alighieri was exiled from Florence for political faction disputes, then spent 20 years writing The Divine Comedy while banned from his home city.