Brave New World 8
Aldous Huxley and his Impossible Utopia
Novelist and essayist Aldous Leonard Huxley was born on July 26, 1894 in Godalming, in the county of Surrey, England which included his father , Leonard Huxley, a prominent literary man and his grandfather was T.H. Huxley , a biologist who led the battle on behalf of the Darwinian evolutionary hypothesis. He once almost quit school because of a eye disease but Aldous went and studied at Oxford, lived mainly in Italy in the 1920's, (where he met and befriended D.H. Lawrence) and moved to California in 1937 with is wife Maria Nys. His early writing included poetry, short stories, and literary journalism, but his reputation was made with his satirical ...
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"The Doors." Then in 1963 Huxley with his wife by his side ingested a dose of mescaline while on his deathbed.
Aldous Huxley’s, Brave New World shows humanity, that an obsession with a utopia, as they world they live in, will come with great cost and is near impossible as he shows that the problem is knowledge destroys value of life. As man has progressed through the ages, there has been, essentially, one purpose. That purpose is to arrive at a utopian society, where everyone is happy, disease is nonexistent, and strife, anger, or sadness are unheard of. Only happiness exists. But when confronted with Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, we come to realize that this is not, in fact, what the human soul really craves. In fact, Utopian societies are much worse than those of today. In a utopian society, the individual, who among others composes the society, is lost in the melting pot of semblance and world of uninterest. He uses his knowledge of science along with his ...
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there is close to impossible. The only way is to give up your humanity. As Granville Hicks said, “This is a pretty horrid picture Mr.Huxley paints, and he can be sure that any of us, after reading his book, will think twice before taking steps that might bring about such a calamity.”(Granville 233). Freedom is what make people humans and in this world you must give of your freedom of choice and let someone else run everything. Some people would jump at the chance to be in a place were all you do is work, eat, and have sex, but would you give up your feelings. He proposes that sleep teaching ,other wise known as hypnopaedia, is the answer and to put people in a group in ...
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