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- ALDOUS HUXLEY BIOGRAPHY
- ALDOUS HUXLEY, brilliant British
Novelist, Satirist and writer of the FUTURISTIC PROPHETIC
DYSTOPIAN NOVEL "BRAVE NEW WORLD" about a CONTROLLING
GOVERNMENT in the YEAR 2540!
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- ALDOUS HUXLEY
was born
on July 26, 1894 in Godalming, England. Huxley was the
grandson of British biologist, Thomas Henry Huxley Aldous
Huxley was partially blind since childhood and his family was
known for their intellectual prominence. Huxley studied at Eton
in England, specializing in Biology. He contracted keratitis and
became partially blind. He was able to read with a magnifying
glass. Huxley became interested in philosophy and English
literature and received a degree at Oxford University in 1915.
Huxley met
Aleister Crowley
in Berlin in 1930 and was introduced to the effects of the
hallucinogenic drug, mescaline.
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- Huxley established himself
as a writer and satirist and began writing about decadent
societies and his disgust for the modern world. He was
influenced by H.G. Wells' vision of the future. But instead of
writing a utopian future, like H.G. Wells, Huxley went in the
opposite direction. Huxley wrote the famous prophetic,
futuristic novel "BRAVE NEW WORLD"
in 1931. "Brave New World" is
set in London in the year 2540 and presents a nightmarish,
frightened dystopian world and controlling government. Huxley
makes a statement against totalitarianism and
technologies threat to an individual's liberty.
In the book, there are 5 castes of society:
"Alpha", "Beta", "Gamma", "Delta" and "Epsilon".
The alphas are the leaders and the rest are physically and
mentally inferior. Tranquilizers are used to keep adults in line
and keep the peace. Only a few women are allowed to reproduce.
People are conditioned to not be competitive with each other.
Each person is bred to do only 1 job. There are also non-civilized
"savages" allocated to specific regions. Huxley conceived the
title of "Brave New World" from
William Shakespeare's
"The Tempest"
where the Miranda character declares
"How beauteous mankind is! O
brave new world."
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- Huxley came to the U.S. in
1937 and began living in California. In 1953, Huxley took
mescaline and became aware of the effects of hallucinogens and
psychedelic drugs. Huxley began writing about drug experiences
(LSD) and mysticism in such books as "The Doors
of Perception" (1954).
Huxley came up with the title of that book from reading
William Blake's "The Marriage Of Heaven And Hell"
and the rock band "The Doors"
were influenced by Huxley's "The Doors Of Perception".
In 1960 Huxley was diagnosed with laryngeal cancer and died on
November 22, 1963.
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- Aldous Huxley's brilliant "Brave New
World" is considered one of the greatest novels in history.
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