Romeo Sherman
Ms. Wells
British Literature
27 April 2015
Aldous Huxley Aldous Huxley was a British writer and philosopher born in Surrey, England on July 26, 1984 into an upper middle class family known for their scientific and literary achievements. His father, Leonard Hurley was a poet, biologist and editor and his mother, Julia ran a boarding school. Three of Aldous siblings as well as his grandfather were well known scientist. Aldous life experiences made him depart from the class into which he was born. “Even as a young child, Aldous was looked upon as being different, showing intelligence, what his brother called superiority. He was respected and loved not hated for his abilities, but he drew on that feeling of separateness in writing Brave New World”( “Aldous Huxley: The Author and his Times,” n.d. para. 4).
At age fourteen, Aldous lost his mother. Shortly after in 1911, while attending Eton school, where he was trained in medicine, the arts and science and became ill with a disease that nearly took his eyesight. Aldous’s loss of eyesight kept him from being able to pursue his career interest as a scientist or as a soldier in World War I and as a result, turned his interests toward literature. Even though his …show more content…
This loose collection of friends and relatives lived, worked or studied together near Bloomsburg, London from 1907 to 1930. During the first half of the 20th century, their works and outlook deeply influenced literature, aesthetics, criticism, and economics as well as modern attitudes toward feminism, pacifism and sexuality. The group was not completely in agreement in all subjects .However, united by the influencer of philosopher G.E. Moore, who wrote that the key to life was love, the creation and enjoyment of aesthetic experience and the pursuit of