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Aldous Huxley and his Impossible Utopia

Jim Everland                                                   Everland 1
Mr. Mahoney
College English  IV
8 October 1999

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 novels Crome Yellow (1921) and Antic Hay. His later writing became more mystical in character, as in Eyeless in Gaza  and Time Must Have a Stop, while Island  is an optimistic Utopia. He also experimented with drugs. The two essays about his mescaline adventures are The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell, nicely chronicled through letter correspondences during the time in Moksha. The title of  Doors of Perception, lifted from poet William Blake, inspired rock singer Jim Morrison to name his group "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
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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 imagination to show society how a utopia would be. All through life everyone tries to obtain a world in which one can live with enjoyment, equality, fairness, and happiness.
Many great writers have created utopian worlds that the reader can consider and explore. To create a perfect place compels the writer to write novels that deal with utopia. People see them selves in a place where it is fun and enjoyable. Writers see today's world not as the "good place". The world today has many wars, diseases, and world wide hunger. It takes many steps to produce a utopian world and is why creating a Utopia is no easy task. Other type of world that is opposite of  utopia is dystopia. Dystopia is a place where in literary meaning would be a, "bad place".  Huxley’s satire shows us that any
utopia that is in  your mind at first always has its flaws and is sure to be a dystopia in reality.
In  Brave New World, he takes the individuality and has made happiness and enjoyment of life in to an artificial feeling with the constant presence of soma. This  satire of modern civilization would only set the stage for the future, though Huxley had
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no idea of the events which his book would predict, he plays with the idea of having a utopia.  A utopia is a perfect place in which everything is right. But to get 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...

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