Aldous Huxley was born in Surrey, England, on July 26, 1894, to an illustrious family deeply rooted in England’s literary and scientific tradition.
Huxley’s father, Leonard Huxley, was the son of Thomas Henry Huxley, a well-known biologist who championing Charles Darwin’s evolutionary ideas.
His mother, Julia Arnold, was related to the important nineteenth-century poet and essayist Matthew Arnold.
So He has always been interested in science.
Raised in this family of scientists, writers, Huxley received an excellent education, first at home, then at Eton, providing him with access to numerous fields of knowledge.
His education at the intersection of science and literature allowed him to integrate current scientific findings into his novels and essays in a way that few other writers of his time were able to do.
Science Fiction favors theme of future societies.
It designs other social systems where reason triumphs, that is to say utopias.
He denounces the dangers of this utopia, so we talk about dystopias.
Science is a fiction.
Aside from his education, another major influence on Huxley’s life and writing was an eye disease contracted in his teenage years that left him almost blind.
Huxley had dreamed about becoming a doctor, but the degeneration of his eyesight prevented him from pursuing his chosen career.
Blindness and vision are motifs that permeate much of Huxley’s writing.
Huxley loved Shakespeare, he studied a lot in the prestigious Eton school in England.
The text of Brave New World is truly steeped in Shakespeare.
There are a lot of quotes from Shakespeare that are made.
Brave new world shows the exclamation of the young Miranda when, in the Tempest, she sees for the first time, a group of human beings among whom