Aldous Huxley and his Brave New World

Aldous Huxley, said to have created the best utopian novel of all time, did not start out his career as a writer. He began his life in the midst of a sea of social pressure, not unlike most teenagers today. However by the age of 16 Huxley was already studying medicine and planning to be a doctor. Things were going very well for Huxley until he contracted a disease, which left him temporarily blind and prevented him from following his dreams in science. As an alternative he turned to literature and found writing to be his outlet. Huxley developed his writing skills and poured all aspects of his life and personality into his writing. Aldous Huxley, through his family influence, social philosophy, and interest in science, was able to create an entirely new style of novel writing and thus created A Brave New World, one of the most masterful utopian novels of all time.
Huxley, born into a prominent English family, was raised a privileged child in a strict class structured English soc...