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This 4 page paper discusses some aspects of Huxley's life and how they impacted his writing, particularly "Brave New World." Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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"into a family that included some of the most distinguished members of that part of the English ruling class made up of the intellectual elite" (Aldous Huxley: The author and
his times, 1985). His grandfather was Thomas Henry Huxley, who helped develop the theory of evolution; his aunt was a novelist, Mrs. Humphrey Ward; Mrs. Ward was "the niece of
Matthew Arnold, the poet; and the granddaughter of Thomas Arnold" who was later immortalized as the headmaster of Rugby School in Tom Browns schooldays (Aldous Huxley: The author and his
times, 1985). His heritage appears to have been important to Huxley at the same time that it was something of a burden; a long-time friend, Gerald Heard, wrote that Huxleys
family and upbringing "brought down on him a weight of intellectual authority and a momentum of moral obligations" (Aldous Huxley: The author and his times, 1985). His ambivalent attitude toward
authority, the idea of an elite ruling class, and scientific progress can be seen throughout Brave new world, where an ideal, peaceful society is kept that way by drugs, intimidation
and rigid enforcement of a set of inviolable rules. The society described in the novel mirrors the one in which Huxley lived. The England of the late 19th and early
20th century possessed a "rigid class structure"-to a large extent it still does-and that was clearly shown in the novel (Aldous Huxley: The author and his times, 1985). In the
book, in fact, the structure is even more rigid than in reality, because "it is biologically and chemically engineered and psychologically conditioned" (Aldous Huxley: The author and his times, 1985).
The members of the ruling class depicted in the novel believe they have the right decide what constitutes happiness, and to make sure everyone is "happy," even if that means
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