![]() Since their lives go according to plan, there are no disappointments or desires. The hatched-society does not have any human emotions, they do not love or cherish or grieve. Here embryos are bred large scale in labs without any need for a father or mother. The story is mostly set in the Central London Hatching and Conditioning Centre. They are one-dimensional as compared to Shakespeare’s characters, for example, who are well rounded. The plot of this novel and the characters are more like that of a cartoon rather than that of a novel. While in Europe, Huxley began experimenting with LSD and other hallucinatory drugs and this finds echo in the Brave New World where the characters take Soma and it is also administered to the children to keep them under the state’s control. This book depicts a society where an individual’s life has been completely controlled to ensure a stable society that has been designed by behavioral scientists.Īldous Huxley became active in pacifist politics and in 1937, alarmed by the stock piling of weapons in Europe and wanting to avoid the experience of war, he moved to the US. This theme finds extensive treatment in the novel Brave New World. These novels deal with the conflict between society and the life and interests of an individual and how to achieve self-realization within the framework of society. Some of his well-known novels are Antic Hay (1923), Those Barren Leaves (1925), and Point Counter Point (1928). Vision and blindness are two motifs that keep appearing in many of his novels.Īlongside satirical pieces that mocked the habits and attitudes of the upper crest in the British society, he also produced novels with remarkable rapidity. Huxley was deeply interested in happenings in the world of science and he used his knowledge of science in many of his novels. ![]() When Aldous Huxley was a boy it was believed that he would pursue his ambition to be a doctor but an unfortunate eye infection led to partial blindness and he had to reconcile to a career as a writer. ![]() Aldous Huxley’s grandfather was an associate of Charles Darwin and his mother was related to the poet, Matthew Arnold. Aldous Huxley was born in England on Jto a family that was well known in literary and scientific circles. ![]()
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